Beauty Truth Quotes

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.

I used to think there was something cheap in trying to make beautiful sentences. Now I think language has its own ways and ends, and it does one's thinking good to try to serve them. Beauty isn't truth. But a certain kind of clear beauty will help in the pursuit of truth.

Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not

I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth.

Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness. . . . Would that we could send robots who could film these psychedelic realities. . . . The presence of so much beauty is an argument to me that truth cannot be far away.

Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.

The biggest beauty myth is that everyone looks better without makeup. That's not true. Makeup is important.

There are many kinds of truth. But truth communicated by beauty is the only pure one. The only one that touches me in the heart.

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed to the empty. The trite objects of human efforts — possessions, outward success, luxury—have always seemed to me contemptible.

How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!

Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.