“To have beauty is to have only that,
but to have goodness
is to be beautiful
too.”

“For the first time, I wasn't embarrassed by the look of beauty, of elegance, because when you see someone who has only one rag as their property, but it happens to be beautiful and pink and silk, beauty doesn't have to be separated... I have always said that you shouldn't have biases, you shouldn't have prejudices. But before that [before his trip to India, c. 1975] I'd never been able to use purple, because it was too beautiful.”

“Beauty without purpose is beauty without virtue.
But all beautiful things, inherently, have this function —
to excite the viewers toward sublime thought.
Glory to the world, that good teacher.”

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

“Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else.”

“I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.”

“I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.”

“For love is beautiful only when you have mastered your emotions and mind.”

“Battle scars from the war of good versus evil have a unique beauty all their own.”

“Architectural drawings may look beautiful and be admired by critics but to be good, they have to work in daily use.”