„The dimple that thy chin contains has beauty in its round,
That never has been fathomed yet by myriad thoughts profound.“

„The profoundness of our emotions comes from the sufficiency of these lines and these colors to explain themselves.... everything is contained in the beauty of the work.“

—  Maurice Denis French painter 1870 - 1943

Quote 1890, from Denis' essay published in the review 'Art et Critique'; as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Denis - reference [13]
In August 1890, Denis consolidated his new ideas and presented them in a famous essay published in the review 'Art et Critique'. In his essay, he termed the new movement 'neo-traditionaism', in opposition to the 'progressism' of the Neo-impressionists, led by Seurat
1890 - 1920

„Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.“

—  William Shakespeare, libro Romeo e Giulietta

Variante: O my love, my wife!
Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath
Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
Origine: Romeo and Juliet

„Suppose that thou hast detached thyself from the natural unity… yet here there is this beautiful provision, that it is in thy power again to unite thyself. God has allowed this to no other part, after it has been separated and cut asunder, to come together again. …he has distinguished man, for he has put it in his power not to be separated at all from the universal …he has allowed him to be returned and to be united and to resume his place as a part.“

—  Marcus Aurelius, libro Meditations

VIII, 34
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII

„Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul,
Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee,
Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine!“

—  Joseph Addison, libro Cato

Act III, scene ii.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)

„Beautiful thoughts, and beautiful women never last.“

—  Charles Bukowski, libro Notes of a Dirty Old Man

Origine: Notes of a Dirty Old Man

„Hast thou left thy blue course in heaven, golden-haired son of the sky? The west has opened its gates; the bed of thy repose is there. The waves come to behold thy beauty. They lift their trembling heads. They see thee lovely in thy sleep; they shrink away with fear. Rest, in thy shadowy cave, O sun! let thy return be in joy.“

—  James Macpherson Scottish writer, poet, translator, and politician 1736 - 1796

"Carric-thura"
The Poems of Ossian

„Truth has been relegated to subjectivity; beauty has been subjugated to the beholder; and as millions are idiotized night after night, a global commune has been constructed with the arts enjoying a totalitarian rule.“

—  Ravi Zacharias Indian philosopher 1946

1990s
Origine: [Can Man Live Without God, 1994, 9780849939433, 12]

„it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.“

—  Frances Burney, libro Evelina

Letter VI
Evelina (1778)

„age has its own glory, beauty, and wisdom that belong to it.“

—  Joseph Murphy, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

Origine: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

„In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.“

—  Leo Tolstoy Russian writer 1828 - 1910

What is Art? (1897)

„The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life.“

—  Jim Henson American puppeteer 1936 - 1990

„Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.“

—  Franz Kafka author 1883 - 1924

„Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.“

—  Herman Melville American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet 1818 - 1891

„Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.“

—  Mignon McLaughlin American journalist 1913 - 1983

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

„It is, indeed an incredible fact that what the human mind, at its deepest and most profound, perceives as beautiful finds its realization in external nature.… What is intelligible is also beautiful.“

—  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar physicist 1910 - 1995

From a lecture, "Beauty and the Quest for Beauty in Science" given at the International Symposium in recognition of Robert R. Wilson on April 27, 1979 at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois.

„Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.“

—  George Bernard Shaw Irish playwright 1856 - 1950

„Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.“

—  Sigmund Freud, libro Il disagio della civiltà

Origine: 1920s, Civilization and Its Discontents (1929), Ch. 2, as translated by James Strachey, p.62

„To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.“

—  Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882

Origine: Nature and Selected Essays

„The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.“

—  Aron Nimzowitsch chess player and theoretician 1886 - 1935

Quoted in Nimzovich : The Hypermodern (1948) by Fred Reinfeld