I am an artist. Gardening is my graffiti. A graffiti artist beautifies walls; I beautify parkways and yards. I treat the garden as a piece of cloth and the plants and the trees are the embellishment of that cloth. You'd be surprised what soil can do if you let it be your canvas. Ron Finley
It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it. Orlando Gibbons
There is (gentle reader) nothing (the works of God only set apart) which so much beautifies and adorns the soul and mind of man as does knowledge of the good arts and sciences. John Dee
A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin. Samuel Johnson
Desire beautifies what is ugly. Spanish Proverb