“The whole scene, the empty beach, the green and blue sea, the naked girl with the strands of fair hair, reminded Bond of something. He searched his mind. Yes, she was Botticelli’s Venus, seen from behind.”
— Ian Fleming Primary source“A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.”
— Henry David Thoreau Primary source“A record player, a kitchen appliance, a slide projector or a shaver with disorderly, chaotic, confusing or overloaded design cannot fulfil its functions. The harmony of a design too, its aesthetic quality, also has a functional purpose—it facilitates a positive emotional relationship between a device and its user.”
— Dieter Rams Primary source“If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.”
— Marie Curie Secondary source“Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Beauty is the form under which the intellect prefers to study the world.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“The stars seemed near enough to touch and never before have I seen so many. I always believed the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, but I was sure of it that night.”
— Amelia Earhart Primary source“Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“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.”
— Albert Einstein Primary source“That Beauty is the normal state, is shown by the perpetual effort of Nature to attain it.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Beauty and folly are old companions.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Beauty is the quality which makes to endure.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“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.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.”
— Richard Feynman Primary sourceNature Time Quality Courage Kindness