“Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.”
Rabindranath Tagore

200 FAMOUS QUOTES · DESIGN
Read 200 of the best design quotes about simplicity, beauty, function and creativity, from William Morris, Leonardo, Emerson, Confucius and more.
“Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.”
Kahlil Gibran
“In most things nature has contrived that what is most useful has also the greatest dignity and often the greatest beauty.”
Cicero
“The cobbler should not judge beyond his sandal.”
Pliny the Elder
“He knew when to take his hand from a picture.”
Pliny the Elder
“Art lies in concealing art.”
Ovid
“Sublimity is the echo of a great soul.”
Longinus
“Every discourse ought to be a living creature, having a body of its own and a head and feet; there should be a middle, beginning, and end, adapted to one another and to the whole.”
Plato
“Beautiful things are those which please when seen.”
Thomas Aquinas
“Unity is the form of all beauty.”
Augustine of Hippo
“All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.”
Baruch Spinoza
“All beauty is truth.”
Lord Shaftesbury
“Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination.”
Joseph Addison
“Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature.”
Samuel Johnson
“There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life.”
John Constable
“Sweetness and light.”
Matthew Arnold
“Simplicity is the glory of expression.”
Walt Whitman
“There is but one art - to omit!”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“Beauty will save the world.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours.”
The Bible (Isaiah 54:11)
“Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.”
The Bible (Psalm 50:2)
“The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 12:10)
“We murder to dissect.”
William Wordsworth
“What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth.”
John Keats
“Beauty is the splendour of truth.”
Plato