Plato Quotes

Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.

The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.

Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good!

Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection.

Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.

When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.

Elegance means being beautiful both on the inside and out.

Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.

What's beautiful is all that counts, pal. That's all that counts.

I think beauty can be everywhere.

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.

Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.

The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.

I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.