Quotes about beauty and art, verified at the source
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What is beauty, and what is art for? Poets, novelists and critics have answered in a few words that have stayed famous. Every quote on this page has been checked word for word in the original work.
To slip into a sketchbook, an invitation to an exhibition or a card for an artist.
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Formal
Nothing is beautiful but the truth: the truth alone is lovable.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Funny
Heartfelt
Radiant spring has come to you, strutting and smiling with beauty, almost ready to speak.
Inspiring
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
Romantic
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Short
Frequently asked questions
Which quote for an artist or a maker?
A line on the patient work of art, such as Keats’s on the thing of beauty, or a playful one like Wilde’s. Copy it with the author’s name.