Dynamics
Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. (John Keats)
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance. (John Ruskin)
Outstanding beauty, like outstanding gifts of any kind, tends to get in the way of normal emotional development, and thus of that particular success in life which we call happiness. (Milton R Sapirstein)
Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away. (Sa'di)
Beauty is feared more than death. (William Carlos Williams)
Without grace beauty is an unbaited hook. (French Proverb)
The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things; our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands. (George Santayana)
We fly to Beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature. (Emerson)
The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary. (Emerson)
Oh, what a vileness human beauty is, corroding, corrupting everything it touches ! (Euripides)