Beauty Quotes
- Page 4I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.
Bill Griffith
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
Annie Dillard
He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
John Galsworthy
Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
Jean Paul
'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.
Naomi Wolf
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
Christopher Morley
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
W. Somerset Maugham
During the 80s and 90s, we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century, we've come back to simpler times. People are struggling economically and this has forced them to scale back the material aspects of their lives and realise the beauty of finding the simple joy in being with the people we love.
Julia Roberts
The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.
Richard Le Gallienne
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your own soul's doing.
Marie Carmichael Stopes
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.
Jane Seymour
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
Matthew Arnold
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.
Kelly Osbourne
I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone - of having a partner in life.
Maria Bello
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
Bernard Berenson
Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.
Milan Kundera
A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
Helen Rowland
It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.
Richard Le Gallienne
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Khalil Gibran
I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion.
Isaac Albeniz