# Quotes about beauty - Quotes: 16 - Authors: 12 - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty ## Quotes > Why make so much of fragmentary blue > > In here and there a bird, or butterfly, > > Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, > > When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue. [Robert Frost](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost.md) · [New Hampshire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire/why-make-so-much.md) Topics: [beauty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty.md) > The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit. [James Joyce](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-joyce.md) · [Ulysses](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-joyce/ulysses.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-joyce/ulysses/the-heaventree-of-stars.md) Topics: [beauty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty.md) > Happiness is beautiful, all by itself. A happy person is beautiful, per se. [Larry Niven](https://www.leafyquotes.com/larry-niven.md) · [Flatlander](https://www.leafyquotes.com/larry-niven/flatlander.md) · p. 33 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/larry-niven/flatlander/happiness-is-beautiful.md) Topics: [happiness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/happiness.md), [beauty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty.md) > Yet it was the impression that the unknown master has set out to create, Phoenix-like, from the dying embers of a great legend. He had captured, and held for all future ages to see, that beauty whose service is the purpose of life, and it sole justification. [Arthur C. Clarke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke.md) · [The Collected Stories Of Arthur C. Clarke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/the-collected-stories-of-arthur-c-clarke.md) · p. 292 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/the-collected-stories-of-arthur-c-clarke/yet-it-was.md) Topics: [meaning of life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/meaning-of-life.md), [beauty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty.md) > Lost in his thoughts he looked out from his shop at the shining loveliness of that first day of March. Opposite him, a little to the side, stood the eternal bridge, everlastingly the same; through its white arches could be seen the green, sparkling, tumultous waters of the Drina, so that they seemed like some strange diadem in two colours which sparkled in the sun. [Ivo Andric](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ivo-andric.md) · [The Bridge on the Drina](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ivo-andric/the-bridge-on-the-drina.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ivo-andric/the-bridge-on-the-drina/lost-in-his.md) Topics: [beauty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty.md) > I've never met a person I couldn't call a beauty. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol Topics: [beauty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty.md) > When you're interested in somebody, and you think they might be interested in you, you should point out all your beauty problems and defects right away, rather than take a chance they won't notice them.. .On the other hand, say you have a purely temporary beauty problem—a new pimple, lackluster hair, no-sleep eyes, five extra pounds around the middle. Still, whatever it is, you should point it out.. .If you don't point out these things they might think that your temporary beauty problem is a permanent beauty problem.. .If they really do like you for yourself, they'll be willing to use their imagination to think of what you must look like without your temporary beauty problem. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol Topics: [beauty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty.md) > I really don't care that much about "Beauties." What I really like are Talkers. To me, good talkers are beautiful because good talk is what I love. The word itself shows why I like Talkers better than Beauties, why I tape more than I film. It's not "talkies." Talkers are doing something. Beauties are being something. Which isn't necessarily bad, it's just that I don't know what it is they're being. It's more fun to be with people who are doing things. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol Topics: [words](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/words.md), [beauty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty.md) > The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol Topics: [beauty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty.md) > When I look at things, I always see the space they occupy. I always want the space to reappear, to make a comeback, because it's lost space when there's something in it. If I see a chair in a beautiful space, no matter how beautiful the chair is, it can never be as beautiful to me as the plain space. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol Topics: [beauty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty.md) > Why had he found her unattractive? Now that she was all black and her face covered in a thin layer of coal-dust, she had a strange charm. Germinal Topics: [beauty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty.md) > For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us, in the midst of crime and folly, the echo of that harmonious insurrection which bears witness, throughout the centuries, to the greatness of humanity. [Albert Camus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus.md) · [The Rebel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-rebel.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-rebel/for-those-of-us-who.md) Topics: [art](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/art.md), [beauty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty.md) > Mathematics have a triple aim. They must furnish an instrument for the study of nature. But that is not all: they have a philosophic aim and, I dare maintain, an esthetic aim. They must aid the philosopher to fathom the notions of number, of space, of time. And above all, their adepts find therein delights analogous to those given by painting and music. They admire the delicate harmony of numbers and forms; they marvel when a new discovery opens to them an unexpected perspective; and has not the joy they thus feel the esthetic character, even though the senses take no part therein? Only a privileged few are called to enjoy it fully, it is true, but is not this the case for all the noblest arts? > > This is why I do not hesitate to say that mathematics deserve to be cultivated for their own sake, and the theories inapplicable to physics as well as the others. Even if the physical aim and the esthetic aim were not united, we ought not to sacrifice either. [Henri Poincaré](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henri-poincare.md) · [The Value of Science](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henri-poincare/the-value-of-science.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henri-poincare/the-value-of-science/mathematics-have-a-triple.md) Topics: [science](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/science.md), [beauty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty.md) > Enough, enough, enough! Say no more! Lump the whole thing! say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo! [Mark Twain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain.md) · [The Innocents Abroad](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/the-innocents-abroad.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/the-innocents-abroad/enough-enough-enough.md) Topics: [beauty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty.md) > Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree. [Aristotle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aristotle.md) · [Metaphysics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aristotle/metaphysics.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aristotle/metaphysics/those-who-assert.md) Topics: [science](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/science.md), [beauty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty.md) > There are some men who are considered quite ugly, but who are more remarkable than pretty people. You often see that in artists. [George Bernard Shaw](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw.md) · [Love Among The Artists](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/love-among-the-artists.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/love-among-the-artists/there-are-some.md) Topics: [beauty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty.md)