Top 100 Aesthetic Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.”

— Coco Chanel

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2. “The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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3. “Beauty will save the world.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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4. “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”

— John Keats

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5. “Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Also featured in: Art Quotes

6. “A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Reflection Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Beautiful Quotes

7. “A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.”

— John Keats

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8. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

— John Keats

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9. “Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”

— Oscar Wilde

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10. “Where words leave off, music begins.”

— Heinrich Heine

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Culture Quotes, Quotes About Songs

11. “Elegance is refusal.”

— Coco Chanel

12. “Nature is the art of God.”

— Dante Alighieri

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13. “Photography helps people to see.”

— Berenice Abbott

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

— Franz Kafka

15. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.”

— Melody Truong

Also featured in: Imagination Quotes, Travel Quotes, Longing Quotes, Quotes About the World

16. “The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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17. “Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes, Artist Quotes

18. “To me, photography is about finding something interesting in an ordinary place. I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”

— Elliott Erwitt

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19. “There is no beauty without some strangeness.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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20. “We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore – except to make our lives into a work of art.”

— Lana Del Rey

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21. “Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”

— Hermann Hesse

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22. “Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”

— Jean Paul

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23. “Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.”

— John Ray

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24. “Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”

— Pablo Picasso

Also featured in: Artist Quotes, Simplicity Quotes, Art Quotes

25. “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

— Thomas Merton

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26. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.”

— John Keats

Also featured in: Truth Quotes, Romantic Quotes, Beauty Quotes

27. “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Deep Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Beauty Quotes

28. “Art is my life and my life is art.”

— Yoko Ono

Also featured in: Artist Quotes, Culture Quotes, Art Quotes

29. “I paint flowers so they will not die.”

— Frida Kahlo

Also featured in: Artist Quotes, Bloom Quotes, Flower Quotes

30. “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

— Aldous Huxley

31. “What I have in my heart and soul – must find a way out. That’s the reason for music.”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Quotes About Feelings

32. “Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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33. “As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”

— Pablo Neruda

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34. “What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”

— Walt Whitman

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35. “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”

— Aristotle

Also featured in: Art Quotes

36. “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”

— Emily Dickinson

Also featured in: Poetry Quotes, Quotes About Feelings

37. “April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.”

— T. S. Eliot

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38. “The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting.”

— Vincent van Gogh

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39. “I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars.”

— Walt Whitman

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40. “I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Be Yourself Quotes, Enjoy Life Quotes, Freedom Quotes

41. “I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David.”

— Michelangelo

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42. “You know what music is? God’s little reminder that there’s something else besides us in this universe; harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars.”

— Robin Williams

Also featured in: Harmony Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Moving Quotes

43. “Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.”

— Tyler Knott Gregson

Also featured in: Enjoy Life Quotes, Different Quotes

44. “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”

— William Wordsworth

Also featured in: Intention Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Quotes About Heart, Romantic Quotes

45. “I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Journey Quotes, Nature Quotes

46. “What is Art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

Also featured in: Real Quotes

47. “Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration.”

— Anamika Mishra

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48. “Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Culture Quotes

49. “All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.”

— Jean Cocteau

Also featured in: Music Quotes

50. “It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.”

— David Attenborough

Also featured in: Environment Quotes, Nature Quotes