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

Nothing useless can be truly 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.

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

… but love, like all art, as Oscar said, it's quite useless. It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe but not worth bothering with.

Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning we give it.

There is nothing in life except what one thinks of it.

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

What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

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

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

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it, and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

The usefulness of the useless is good news for artists, for art serves no useful purpose. It has to do with changing minds and spirits.

Come to think of it I don't know that love has a point, which is what makes it so glorious. Sex has a point, in terms of relief and, sometimes procreation, but love, like all art, as Oscar said, is quite useless. It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.