“Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction”

“Let us live for the beauty of our own reality ”

“In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty ”

“Beauty is the promise of happiness”

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it ”

“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time ”