Beauty Preservation Quotes

In life beauty perishes, but not in art.

Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that to be lost.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.

Take care of your inner beauty, your spiritual beauty, and that will reflect in your face. We have the face we created over the years. Every bad deed, every bad fault will show on your face. God can give us beauty and genes can give us our features, but whether that beauty remains or changes is determined by our thoughts and deeds.

The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance.

My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.

I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.

What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication, compared with the simple altar-like structure and silent heart-language of the old sundials! It stood as the garden god of Christian gardens. Why is it almost everywhere vanished? If its business-use be superseded by more elaborate inventions, its moral uses, its beauty, might have pleaded for its continuance.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone. Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time, the less available we are to the very moment we seek to preserve.

Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind doth waste their power, But by her breath her beauties to renew.

Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean and unsullied; like a piece of metal constantly kept smooth and bright, we look on it with more pleasure than on a new vessel cankered with rust.

Don't waste the pretty

One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification. The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens.

The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.

We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.

The soul preserves beauty.

There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.