I know of nothing useful in life except what is beautiful or creates beauty.

To a poet nothing can be useless.

If there is anything beautiful other than absolute beauty, that can only be beautiful as far as it partakes of absolute beauty—and this I should say of everything. ...by beauty all things become beautiful. ...by greatness only great things become great and greater and greater, and by smallness the less becomes less.

There is nothing truly beautiful but that which can never be of any use whatsoever; everything useful is ugly.

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

Nothing in this world is useless in the eyes of God. Not a leaf from a tree falls, not a hair from your head, not even an insect dies because it was of no use. Everything has a reason to exist... Don’t try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough, and that makes all the difference. A life is never useless. Each soul that came down to Earth is here for a reason.

Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.

There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful.

Have nothing in your house you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

Il n'y a de vraiment beau que ce qui ne peut servir à rien; tout ce qui est utile est laid.

It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from absolute Beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute Beauty, and for no other reason... [I]t is by Beauty that beautiful things are beautiful.

By means of beauty, all beautiful things become beautiful.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.

what we know to be useless, but expect civilization to value, is beauty;