There is sometimes a greater judgement shewn in deviating from the rules of art, than in adhering to them; and†there ismore beauty inthe works of a great genius who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.

-Addison,Joseph
  In The Spectator, no.592,10 Sep.

Edward Hopper is the great painter of American hell in the 20th century, the limner-laureate of the beauty, poignance, eternityand bone-ache disquietude of life.

-Allen, Henry Southworth
 In the Washington Post, 25  Jun.

   My Love in her attire doth show her wit, It doth so well become her; For every season she hath dressings fit, For winter, spring, and summer. No beauty she doth miss When all her robes are on; But beauty's self she is When all her robes are gone.

-Anonymous
'Madrigal'. Collected in F Davison (ed) Poetical Rhapsody (1602).

Pulchritudo enim creaturae nihil est aliud quam similitudo divinae pulchritudinis in rebus participata. The beautyofcreaturesisnothingother thananimage of the divine beauty in which things participate.

-Aquinas, StThomas
c.1260  Commentarium in Dionysii De Divinibus Nominibus, bk.4, ch.5.

Solus homo delectatur in ipsa pulchritudine sensibilium secundum seipsam. Only man delights in the beauty of sense objects for their own sake.

-Aquinas, StThomas
c.1268  Summa Theologia, bk.1, question 91, article 3.

And that sweet City with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty's heightening.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Of Oxford. New Poems,'Thyrsis', l.19^20.

Bonte¤   vaut mieux que beaute¤  . Kindness is worth more than beauty.

-Arras,Jean d' also known as Jean Blondel   fl.c.1375
c.1393  Melusine.

Sero te amavi, pulchritudo tam antiqua et tam nova, sero te amavi! Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you.

-St Augustine originally Aurelius Augustinus
AD 397  Confessions, bk.10, ch.27.

Beauty is as summer-fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and cannot last.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.43,'Of Beauty'.

That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.43,'Of Beauty'.

I have trouble with beauty.

-Baselitz, Georg
  On the effects of witnessing suffering as a child in Dresden during the war. In the NewYork Times, 21 May.

La'  , tout n'est qu'ordre et beaute¤  , Luxe, calme et volupte¤  . There where all is order and beauty. Lush, calm and voluptuous.

-Baudelaire, Charles
  Les Fleurs du mal,'L'Invitation au Voyage'.

Beautyand the lust for learning have yet to be allied.

-Beerbohm, Sir (Henry) Max(imilian)
Zuleika Dobson, ch.7.

Je n'e¤  cris point d'amour, n'estant point amoureux, Je n'e¤  cris de beaute¤  , n'aiant belle maistresse, Je n'e¤  cris de douceur, n'esprouvant que rudesse, Je n'e¤  cris de plaisir, me trouvant douloureux. I cannot write of love, as I am not in love, I cannot write of beauty, as I have no beautiful mistress, I cannot write of sweetness, as I experience nothing but hardship, I cannot write of pleasure, as I am always in pain.

-Bellay,Joachim du
  Les Regrets, no.79.

On se fait une ide¤  e pre¤  cise de l'ordre, mais non pas du de¤ s ordre. La beaute¤  , la vertu, le bonheur, ont des proportions; la laideur, le vice, et le malheur, n'en ont point. We can form a precise idea of order, but not of disorder. Beauty, virtue, happiness, all have their proportions; ugliness, vice and unhappiness have none.

-Bernardin de Saint-Pierre,Jacques-Henri
  Paul et Virginie.

   Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.One thing have I desired of the L, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the L all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the L, and to inquire in his temple.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDORDPsalms 27:3^4.

O worship the L in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms 96:9.

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the L, she shall be praised.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDProverbs 31:30.

Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the L revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely hehath borne ourgriefs, and carried our sorrows.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDIsaiah 53:1^4.

The Spirit of the Lord G isuponme; becausethe Lhath anointed meto preach good tidings untothemeek; he hath sent me, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;To proclaim the acceptable yearofthe L, and the dayof vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for thespirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the L, that he might be glorified.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ODORD ORDORDIsaiah 61:1^3.