“Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit, adapted to each taste, to each particular constitution.” LooksSpiritSpeakBeautyParticularTasteThousandConstitutionAdapted Author:Eugene Delacroix
“There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us. Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, room, dress, and so on. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste.” MadeCertainSongHouseStrongRoomsBeautyGraceTreePleaseTasteStandardsBirdRiversWeakRelationDressesProseVersesDiscourseGood Taste Book:Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works
“What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good taste? It exists because it behooves rational human beings to provide reasons for their actions and assessments. Even if aesthetics are not the mathematics of beauty, they are the proof of the calculation.” IfsHumansReasonUseActionHuman BeingsBeautyTeachProduceTasteAppreciateMathematicsProofRationalAestheticsCalculationsAssessmentGood Taste Author:Franz Grillparzer
“Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades and dies almost in the very moment of its maturity; yet there is, methinks, a kind of beauty which lives even to old age; a beauty that is not in the features, but, if I may be allowed the expression, shines through them. As it is not merely corporeal it is not the object of mere sense, nor is it to be discovered but by persons of true taste and refined sentiment.” IfsKindMayPersonsSaidMomentsAgeDiesBeautyObjectsExpressionFlowerTasteShiningMereOld AgeFeaturesMaturitySentimentsFadesLiteralRefined Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.” BeautyTasteElementsOriginalsMonstersConventional Author:Alfred Jarry
“Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.” TodayBeautifulPerfectBeautyFashionTasteBeautiful WomenEpochBellePerfect Beauty Author:Karl Lagerfeld
“Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.” GoalBeautyTasteAmbitionSoleExclusive Author:Charles Baudelaire
“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.” PeopleWantBeautyColorTasteTownsRidiculousCereal Book:Paper Towns Source: Paper Towns