When you look deeply into yourself you may be able to see that there is, in this moment, a quality of aliveness that is animating you that is not philosophical and is not abstract. It’s always there! it is animating your breath, it is coursing the spirit, it is what makes it possible for you to think and speak and see and hear. This is the invisible touch.
— Alexis Karpouzos
People always say they have a deer heads on their walls because it’s such a beautiful animal. There you go! I have photographs of my mother because I think she’s attractive.
— unknown
Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.
— Sol LeWitt
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
— Edgar Allan Poe (Submitted by: Jim P., Boston, USA)
Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.
— Rosalind Russell
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness.
— John Keats (Endymion)
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
To love beauty is to see light.
— Victor Hugo
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
— Confucius