Beauty, Michelangelo Buonarroti

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

― Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)

Beauty, Ralph Waldo Emerson

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

― Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Beauty, Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty without expression is boring.

― Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Beauty, Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful.

- Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)

Beauty, Edmund Spenser

O, how can beauty master the most strong!

- Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) an English poet

Art, Will Rogers

See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?

- Will Rogers (1879-1935), to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo

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Beauty, Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I have always believed that good is only beauty but into practice.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

Beauty, Anatole France

If I were called upon to choose between beauty and truth, I should not hesitate; I should hold to beauty, being confident that it bears within it a truth both higher and sdeeper than truth itself. I will go so far as to say there is nothing true in the world save beauty.

- Anatole France (Francois Anatole Thibault, 1844-1924)

Beauty, Sappho

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon also be beautiful.

- Sappho (Σαπφώ)

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http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/59712.Sappho

Calendula officinalis, Fryšták

Calendula officinalis, Fryšták

Description	Čeština: Měsíček lékařský (Calendula officinalis), Fryšták English: Pot marigold Fragaria, Fryšták
Date	16 August 2011, 14:20:44
Source	Own work
Author	This image is a work by Pavel Ševela (sevela.p). When reusing, please credit me as: Pavel Ševela / Wikimedia Commons.
Licensing	This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Attribution: Pavel Ševela

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