Aesthetic Quotes from Books
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion. – Edgar Allan Poe
The only truth is music. – Jack Kerouac, On the Road
A picture is a poem without words. – Horace
To love beauty is to see light. – Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
Art speaks where words are unable to explain. – Mathiole
The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness. – James Gates Percival
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. – Pablo Picasso
Every artist was first an amateur. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Creativity takes courage. – Henri Matisse
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. – John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. – Pablo Picasso
The world is but a canvas to the imagination. – Henry David Thoreau
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. – Edgar Degas
We are all fools in love. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Aesthetic Quotes from Books part 2
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
In all witchcraft, there is an element of truth. – Arthur Miller, The Crucible
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us only for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. – Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
The sky was a poem, the most lovely of them all. – Kiera Cass, The Selection
Even in the darkest times, hope is always present. It just might be hiding behind the clouds. – Marie Lu, Legend
There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights. – Bram Stoker, Dracula
The world was hers for the reading. – Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
She was a flower in the wind—gentle, delicate, and beautiful. – Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you. – Chris Prentiss, Zen and the Art of Happiness
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. – Emile Zola, The Masterpiece
The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. – Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. – Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Cemetery of Forgotten Books
What is important is the story. If I die without finishing my work, then I’m going to tell my daughter the ending. That’s enough for me. – Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to. – Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
A writer, like an athlete, must ‘train’ every day. – Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one. – George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us. – Jay Kristoff, Nevernight
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. – Edgar Allan Poe
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. – John Green, Looking for Alaska
The magic at the heart of art is just this ability to hold contradictions together in fruitful tension. – Sarah Pierce, The Artist’s Mentor
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. – Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist
Art is the lie that makes us realize the truth. – Pablo Picasso
Only the shallow know themselves. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. – Roald Dahl, The Minpins
Sometimes, the smallest things take up the most room in your heart. – A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
