“Beauty has no superlative.”

“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”

Benjamin Britten (1913–1976) English composer, conductor, and pianist

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“Everything has it's beauty but not everyone sees it.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

“Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.”

Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist

“The poignancy which all beauty has.”

W. Somerset Maugham book The Moon and Sixpence

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty — he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world — alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Twilight of the Idols

“The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“Beauty's of a fading nature
Has a season and is gone!”

Robert Burns (1759–1796) Scottish poet and lyricist