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