Jean Anouilh Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself.
Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough.