Intelligent Quotes

“Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.”

“In all design, art lies in making your object prominent, but there is a prior art in choosing objects that are prominent.”

“The motive of science was the extension of man, on all sides, into Nature, till his hands should touch the stars.”

“Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.”

“Beauty is the form under which the intellect prefers to study the world.”

“We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its ends; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes. It is the most enduring quality and the most ascending quality.”

“Beauty is the quality which makes to endure.”

“That Beauty is the normal state, is shown by the perpetual effort of Nature to attain it.”

“All our science lacks a human side.”

“There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.”