“A beauty is not suddenly in a circle. It comes with rapture. A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.”— Gertrude Stein, amazon.com
“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.”— Henry James, en.wikiquote.org
“We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.”— Alan Moore, amazon.com
“Silence is always beautiful, and a silent person is always more beautiful than one who talks.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“I looked up at the sky; the pure, wonderful stars were still there, burning.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank and had midnight swims.”— Arundhati Roy, amazon.com
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”— Leo Tolstoy, amazon.com
“She reminded me of the sea; the way she came dancing towards you, wild and beautiful, and just when she was almost close enough to touch she’d rush away again.”— Glenda Millard, amazon.com
“That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul.”— Wassily Kandinsky, amazon.com
“I hear the wind blow, and I feel that it was worth being born just to hear the wind blow.”— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.com
“The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.”— Laura Ingalls Wilder, amazon.com
“The desolate, deserted trees, The faded earth, the heavy sky, The beauties she so truly sees, She thinks I have no eye for these, And vexes me for reason why.”— Robert Frost, amazon.com
“People think that the world itself is overflowing with beauty, but they forget that they are its cause.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com