Beauty Quotes

I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

To love beauty is to see light.

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

I don't get anything for free. I pay for all my beauty treatments.

It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.

The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.

Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

That's the beauty of being a comedian - it's the one job you're allowed to do that. We're lucky. We're really lucky.