Top 100 Aesthetic Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Dance is music made visible.”

— George Balanchine

52. “It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.”

— Oscar Wilde

53. “Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”

— John Keats

54. “We love the things we love for what they are.”

— Robert Frost

55. “Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.”

— Brandon Boyd

56. “Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.”

— Khalil Gibran

57. “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”

— Michelangelo

58. “Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.”

— Khalil Gibran

59. “She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city.”

— Roman Payne

60. “Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

61. “If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber’d here While these visions did appear.”

— William Shakespeare

62. “The human body is the best work of art.”

— Jess C. Scott

63. “For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.”

— Vincent van Gogh

64. “May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.”

— Edward Abbey

65. “The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.”

— Plato

66. “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

— Oscar Wilde

67. “Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”

— Khalil Gibran

68. “The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.”

— Henri Poincaré

69. “Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

70. “Design is everything. Everything!”

— Paul Rand

71. “The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.”

— Coco Chanel

72. “Every day is a fashion show and the world is the runway.”

— Coco Chanel

73. “I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.”

— William Shakespeare

74. “Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

75. “Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

76. “See the music, hear the dance.”

— George Balanchine

77. “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it?”

— L.M. Montgomery

78. “What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.”

— W. H. Davies

79. “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter.”

— John Keats

80. “The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

81. “To love beauty is to see light.”

— Victor Hugo

82. “Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

83. “To pull off any look, wear it with confidence.”

— Audrey Hepburn

84. “Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

85. “Be like snow – cold, but beautiful.”

— Lana Del Rey

86. “Art is a reflection of God’s creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God.”

— Francis Schaeffer

87. “Beauty without expression is boring.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

88. “You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.”

— Coco Chanel

89. “The stars are far brighter Than gems without measure, The moon is far whiter Than silver in treasure; The fire is more shining On hearth in the gloaming Than gold won by mining, So why go a-roaming? O! Tra-la-la-lally Come back to the Valley.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

90. “How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains.”

— John Muir

91. “Without love there is no art. When the artist is playing beautifully there is no ’me; there is love and beauty, and this is art. This is skill in action.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

92. “Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.”

— Norman Maclean

93. “There is beauty in everything, just not everybody sees it.”

— Andy Warhol

94. “I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness.”

— John Muir

95. “We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.”

— Khalil Gibran

96. “The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.”

— Michelangelo

97. “The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness...”

— Khalil Gibran

98. “The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.”

— Pablo Picasso

99. “By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.”

— Rumi

100. “The most important thing is to live a fabulous life. As long as it’s fabulous I don’t care how long it is.”

— Freddie Mercury