“It is not expensive to be beautiful. It takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. But it takes some effort. And unfortunately people think of beauty as luxury, beauty as frivolity, … or extravagance. Beauty is a discipline, beauty is art, is harmony, in the ideological sense and in the theological sense, beauty is God and love made real. And the ultimate reach in this world is beauty.”

“Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.”

“Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.”

“What we are pursuing is beauty, nothing but beauty. It's not true beauty if we didn't create it. Creating beauty with beauty is not true beauty either; real beauty is achieved by transforming the ugly into the beautiful.”

“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”

“Beauty made you love, and love made you beautiful.”

“The most natural Beauty in the World is Honesty, and Moral Truth. For all Beauty is Truth. True Features make the Beauty of a Face; and true Proportions the Beauty of Architecture; as true Measures that of Harmony and Musick.”

“Sensitiveness to beauty of the world continues, and efforts to preserve it were also made in the past.”

“I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.”

“Art is most simply and most usually defined as an attempt to create pleasing forms. Such forms satisfy our sense of beauty and the sense of beauty is satisfied when we are able to appreciate a unity or harmony of formal relations among our sense-perceptions.”