960 Beauty Quotes

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.

For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us, in the midst of crime and folly, the echo of that harmonious insurrection which bears witness, throughout the centuries, to the greatness of humanity.

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.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of their beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

My look is attainable. Women can look like Audrey Hepburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large sunglasses, and the little sleeveless dresses.

Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic. It has engaged the industry and wisdom of ancient and modern geometers to such an extent that it would be superfluous to discuss the problem at length... Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.

You have no idea what a long-legged gal can do without doing anything.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course.

To tell the truth, the chariot was an astonishing sight to behold, because I had polished the steel of my flying house so carefully that it reflected the sunlight on all sides. It was so bright and dazzling that I thought, myself, that I had been carried away in a chariot of fire.

Beauty like hers is genius.

We're pretty! We are though, we're a good-looking band.

The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.

I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit which distinguished it from all that had gone before. It is a vital distinction.

Perfect beauty implies perfect simplicity, a quality that at first sight does not arouse the emotions which we feel before gigantic works, objects whose very disproportion constitutes an element of beauty.

Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.

Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.

There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault against the unknown forces in order to overcome them and prostrate them before men.

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

In art economy is always beauty.

Of three in One and One in three My narrow mind would doubting be Till Beauty, Grace and Kindness met And all at once were Juliet.

I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human conscience.

Oh, it's - it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none.

God has given us memories that we may have roses in December.

Jack: Hey, wait a minute. What kind of make up is this?

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.

Don't for a moment believe He was killing the young; He was costuming angels.

Beauty is always the result of an accident. Of a violent lapse between acquired habits and those yet to be acquired. It baffles and disgusts. It may even horrify. Once the new habit has been acquired, the accident ceases to be an accident. It becomes classical and loses its shock value.

Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Music is for me like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces.

Dear friend, all theory is gray, And green the golden tree of life.

[Prague is the] prettiest gem in the stone crown of the world...

But he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who color loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face.

In beauty faults conspicuous grow; The smallest speck is seen on snow.

How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.

Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and unenquiring eye perceives neither novelty nor beauty, he walks in the midst of wonders.

I've got loads of cavities. I had a root canal done eight years ago that's unfinished. It's like a rotten little stub, but I like it. It's like when the Indians would make something beaded, they would always put imperfections on it. (1995)

When I see people with perfect teeth, it drives me up the wall. I'd rather swallow a tick than have that! (1995)

Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and, in the end, gravity will get us all.

The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being.

Almost all men, and those that seem to be very miserable, love life, because they cannot bear to lose sight of such a beautiful and lovely world. The ideas, that every moment whilst we live have a beauty that we take not distinct notice of, brings a pleasure that, when we come to the trial, we had rather live in much pain and misery than lose.

Oh, what company good poets are!

To beautify life is to give it an object.

I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I know the strange names of flowers and herbs and of fatal deceptions and magnificent griefs. In night's darkness I've seen raining down on my head pure flames, flashing rays of beauty divine.

Wings I saw springing from fair women's shoulders, and from beneath rubble I've seen butterflies flutter.

All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light.

My poems are like a dagger Sprouting flowers from the hilt; My poetry is like a fountain Sprinkling streams of coral water.

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

Do not go to the garden of flowers! O Friend! go not there; In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the Infinite Beauty.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

'I have heard that Glinda is a beautiful woman, who knows how to keep young in spite of the many years she has lived.'

'In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child,' says good old Santa Claus; and if he had his way the children would all be beautiful, for all would be happy.

And she shows you where to look Among the garbage and the flowers. There are heroes in the seaweed, There are children in the morning, They are leaning out for love, And they will lean that way forever, While Suzanne holds the mirror.

And clenching your fist for the ones like us who are oppressed by the figures of beauty, you fixed yourself, you said, 'Well never mind, we are ugly but we have the music.'

At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.

The things I want to express are so beautiful and pure.

You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

I absolutely adored Mary. I was transfixed by her. She was so beautiful, so witty, so much fun to talk to.

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

The woman we love is ever the prettiest of her sex.

Husn-e-jaana ki taareef mumkin nahin.

Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest, as the lowest, form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

Genius lasts longer than beauty.

Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

Her eyes caught the melody and echoed it in radiance, then closed for a moment, as though to hide their secret. When they opened, the mist of a dream had passed across them.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.

Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.