“I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach, in the curve of a woman's back, in the texture of an ancient tree trunk, but also in the elusive forms of reality.” 

“The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.” 

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

“Beauty is not caused. It is.” 

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?” 

“I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.”

Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it.”

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it.”

There can be no excess to love; none to knowledge; none to beauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest sense. 

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.” 

“There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.” 

“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. ” 

“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.” 

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

“I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.” 

“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” 

“But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think.” 

“An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.” 

“A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. Yes, it was an interesting background. It posed the lad, made him more perfect as it were. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.” 

“We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.” 

“Genius lasts longer than beauty” 

“I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!”