All things as they move toward God are beautiful, and they are ugly as they move away from Him.
Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has the nature of death and sin, just as beauty is associated with what has the nature of virtue and of life.
It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.
Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.
Ugliness is a lack of harmony, assuredly. And evil is the same thing of course.
the worship of beauty is to me a religion. Nothing bad was ever truly beautiful; nothing good is ever really ugly.
Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.
I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
Kalos Kai Agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful.
