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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.
Vera Brittain on beauty

I think love and beauty are what life is all about.
John Derek on beauty

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
Godfrey Harold Hardy on beauty

For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.
David Rittenhouse on beauty

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.
Herbert Gold on beauty

I have a book out called 'The Beauty Equation' and it discusses how off track we have gone in considering beauty.
Nigel Barker on beauty

Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.
Max Roach on beauty

But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content.
Anne Boyd on beauty

For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.
Richard H. Baker on beauty

Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?
Anna Katharine Green on beauty

There are two kinds of artists in this world those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.
Anna Katharine Green on beauty

We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.
Junichiro Tanizaki on beauty

Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.
Marston Morse on beauty

A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.
Clarence Stein on beauty

Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.
Laurette Taylor on beauty

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your own soul's doing.
Marie Carmichael Stopes on beauty

And queenly is the state she keeps, In beauty's lofty trust secure.
William Allen Butler on beauty

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.
Peter York on beauty

I don't know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It's more than talent and beauty. Maybe it's the audience seeing itself in you.
Joan Blondell on beauty

The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.
Alberto Korda on beauty