Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
- David Hume
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.
- Conrad Hall
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle
Further reading: Your Point of View
What You See
What We Perceive
Appreciate The Commonplace