Quotes on beauty

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

Author: Lascelles Abercrombie

Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.

Author: James Adams

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Author: Joseph Addison

I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.

Author: Clay Aiken

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

Author: Anouk Aimee

I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion.

Author: Isaac Albeniz

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Author: Louisa Alcott

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

Author: Alexander Alekhine

Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!

Author: Alexander Alekhine

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

Author: Dante Alighieri

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

Author: Dante Alighieri

We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life.

Author: David Amram

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

Author: Tadao Ando

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

Author: Tadao Ando

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Author: Maya Angelou

Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.

Author: Jean Anouilh

The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.

Author: Minna Antrim

Hold fast to youth and beauty.

Author: Elizabeth Arden

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

Author: Hannah Arendt

When you put the interest of a kid on money instead of heart then you're destroying the beauty of our lives and our thought process, which should be about how much responsibilities you carry as an athlete and a citizen.

Author: Alexis Arguello

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Author: Aristotle

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.

Author: Richard Armour

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

Author: Matthew Arnold

It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.

Author: Rosanna Arquette

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

Author: Margot Asquith

Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were.

Author: Colleen Atwood

Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul.

Author: Kevyn Aucoin

That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.

Author: Kevyn Aucoin

Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.

Author: Kevyn Aucoin

Beauty has a lot to do with character.

Author: Kevyn Aucoin

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.

Author: Kevyn Aucoin

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Author: Saint Augustine

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Author: Saint Augustine

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.

Author: Saint Augustine

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

Author: Marcus Aurelius

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

Author: Jane Austen

The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.

Author: Roy Ayers

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

Author: Gaston Bachelard

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Author: Francis Bacon

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

Author: Francis Bacon

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Author: Francis Bacon

For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.

Author: Richard Baker

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

Author: James Baldwin

The most beautiful things in life are often found in the simplest moments.

Author: Sarah Johnson

It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.

Author: Hans Balthasar

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

Author: Hans Balthasar

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

Author: Hans Balthasar

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

Author: Hans Balthasar

Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.

Author: Hans Balthasar

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

Author: Honore Balzac

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

Author: Honore Balzac

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

Author: George Bancroft

Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty.

Author: Tyra Banks

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

Author: Brigitte Bardot

We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Author: Roy Barnes

Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.

Author: Luis Barragan

Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.

Author: Luis Barragan

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

Author: Charles Baudelaire

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

Author: Charles Baudelaire

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

Author: Charles Baudelaire

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Author: Charles Baudelaire

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

Author: Charles Baudelaire

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

Author: Charles Baudelaire

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

Author: Charles Baudelaire

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

Author: Miriam Beard

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.

Author: James Beattie

Embrace the messiness of life; it's in the chaos that true growth and beauty can be found.

Author: Sarah Williams

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

Author: Martha Beck

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

Author: Martha Beck

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

Author: Roberto Benigni

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

Author: Walter Benjamin

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

Author: Bernard Berenson

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.

Author: Candice Bergen

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.

Author: Candice Bergen

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

Author: Candice Bergen

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

Author: Sarah Bernhardt

What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?

Author: Sarah Bernhardt

Beauty is not just physical.

Author: Halle Berry

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

Author: Theodore Bikel

Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.

Author: Max Bill

I can't live without my beauty products. I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions.

Author: Traci Bingham

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

Author: Jacqueline Bisset

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

Author: Jacqueline Bisset

Exuberance is beauty.

Author: William Blake

I don't know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It's more than talent and beauty. Maybe it's the audience seeing itself in you.

Author: Joan Blondell

I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.

Author: Ella Bloor

The beauty of the past belongs to the past.

Author: Margaret Bourke-White

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Author: Christian Bovee

But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content.

Author: Anne Boyd

A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.

Author: Paul Boyer

But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.

Author: Georg Brandes

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Author: Andre Breton

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Author: Vera Brittain

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Author: Benjamin Britten

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Author: Joseph Brodsky

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

Author: Helen Brown

Do not seek perfection in an imperfect world, for it is in our flaws that we find true beauty.

Author: Jennifer Lopez

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Author: Elizabeth Browning

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

Author: Robert Browning

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

Author: Robert Browning

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

Author: Craig Bruce

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

Author: William Bryant

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Author: Pearl Buck

Like a diamond, authenticity shines brightest when it is unpolished.

Author: Tori Amos

Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.

Author: Delta Burke

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Author: Edmund Burke

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

Author: Edmund Burke

Do not be afraid to stand out, for the most beautiful gardens are those with a variety of blossoms.

Author: Cassandra Thompson

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.

Author: Mark Burnett

Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?

Author: Jeb Bush

I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.

Author: Gerard Butler

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

Author: Samuel Butler

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

Author: David Byrne

Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.

Author: James Caan

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

Author: Julia Cameron

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Author: Albert Camus

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Author: Thomas Carlyle

I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it.

Author: Robert Caro

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.

Author: Robert Caro

My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.

Author: Mary Carpenter

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

Author: Alexis Carrel

Doors open because you're beautiful, but I wouldn't cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains.

Author: Tia Carrere

Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.

Author: Tia Carrere

Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.

Author: Laetitia Casta

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

Author: Arthur Cayley

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

Author: Chanakya

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Author: Chanakya

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Author: Charlie Chaplin

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

Author: John Cheever

Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further.

Author: Joan Chen

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

Author: Lord Chesterfield

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

Author: Margaret Cho

The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.

Author: Helena Christensen

We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.

Author: Christo

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.

Author: Charles Churchill

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Author: Marcus Cicero

There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.

Author: John Clayton

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

Author: David Coe

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

Author: Paulo Coelho

Embrace every challenge as an opportunity to grow, for the most beautiful flowers often bloom in adversity.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo

And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.

Author: Joan Collins

Well I've written four beauty books as well.

Author: Joan Collins

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

Author: Joan Collins

Part of the beauty of the show in a way is that he's not perfect, but you can always count on him to do the right thing in a pinch. That's why he inspires people and inspires me.

Author: Stephen Collins

The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.

Author: Barbara Colorose

Beauty is the lover's gift.

Author: William Congreve

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

Author: William Congreve

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

Author: Mason Cooley

Do not be afraid to stand out, for the most beautiful flowers in the garden are the ones that do not blend in.

Author: Samantha Green

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Author: Gustave Courbet