Beauty Quotes

Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder.

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.

Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong.

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations.

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.

My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.

In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

I love my beauty. It's not my fault.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.