It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

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

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

It is art that makes life makes interest makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.