Quotes · Skopia

9 quotes

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Topic·Nature of beauty✕clear

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.

1758

★ 3.8

Poem · Philosophical literature

Exuberance is beauty.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1793

★ 3.8

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

1851

★ 3.5

It is the very same taste which relishes a demonstration in geometry, that is pleased with the resemblance of a picture to an original, and touched with the harmony of music.

Joshua Reynolds

1776

★ 3.5

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.

Derek Zoolander

Zoolander · 2001

★ 2.1

Beauty's but skin deep.

John Davies of Hereford

1616

★ 1.9

Personal journal

I believe that humor is a part of beauty.

1903

★ 1.9

Film · Animation (film) · Musical (film) · Animation · Musical

She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within.

Beauty and the Beast

1991

★ 1.9

Personal journal

The beautiful implies a combination of many different qualities. Strength alone, without elegance, etc., is not beauty. In a single word, the broadest definition would be harmony.

Eugene Delacroix

1854

★ 1.9