More Random Beauty

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
-  Francis Bacon

 The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.
-  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever is in any way beautiful has its source of beauty in itself,
and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it.
-  Marcus Aurelius

Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one
cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
-  Leon B. Alberti

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable;
what it is or what it means can never be said.
-  George Santayana

Exhuberance is Beauty.
-   William Blake

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add,
but when there is nothing left to take away.
-   Antoine de Saint Exupery

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
-  Confucius

Beauty is the Mistress, the gardener Her slave.

All beautiful things disappear, and beauty is the memory of ideas. 

Chrysanthemums in bloom over a carpet of dry leaves - 
the contrasts and pathos of beauty.

A flower needs roots; beauty of society of minds.

-  Michael P. Garofalo,

Nature is a revelation of God;
Art a revelation of man.
-   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The artist is the only lover; he alone has the pure vision of beauty,
and love is the vision of the soul when it is permitted to gaze upon immortal beauty.
-  Isadora Duncan

Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience,
and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.
-   Donald Culross Peattie, An Almanac for Moderns

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly,
that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an
impression of beauty and delight.
-  Gertrude Jekyll

If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
-   Vincent Van Gogh

The foundations of the world are to be found,
not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought,
but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.
-   Alfted North Whitehead

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless;
peacocks and lilies, for example.
-   John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice