Top 480 Beauty Quotes

Here we have the best Beauty Quotes from famous authors such as Susan Sontag, H. P. Lovecraft, Joanne Woodward, Kaitlyn Bristowe, Bowen Yang. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.

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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjectsmaking it possible… to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality – the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that’s a real treat.

Joanne Woodward
A few years ago I was participating in a comedic ‘Inner Beauty Pageant’ and I had to figure out a talent very last-minute. I always loved Tyra Banks‘s ‘We were all rooting for you!’ moment, and so I decided to lip-sync live to the six-minute entirety of it as my talent.

Beauty is only skin deep.

Thomas Overbury
I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.

With skin and beauty, it always starts from within. So I try to eat very healthy.

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

The beauty of my journey is that it’s always been pretty unpredictable, so stay tuned.

I’m a spiritual person: I believe that if you read the Bible, you get what you want from it. But, when you actually read it, you see the beauty, spirituality, the joy and love, and what makes us godly.

Beauty, to me, is kind, generous, and people that are humble.

I consider fitness, diet, and beauty to be essential to a balanced self.

The thing about organic farming is that the produce will not look the same. Your tomato will not resemble the rich red one from the textbook, and that’s the beauty of it.

We have received a heritage of craftsmanship, of aesthetics, of taste, of identity. Our brands have the beauty to preserve and perpetuate it.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.

A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.

Plastic surgery can’t make you younger or more beautiful, because beauty is in your eyes, isn’t it? It’s in your soul; you can’t strap it on.

I am so honored to join the company of a roster as celebrated and diverse as Covergirl’s. I can’t wait to share some of my own beauty tips with fans and work alongside Covergirl to continue empowering girls and women to celebrate their individuality.

The beauty of my journey is that it’s always been pretty unpredictable, so stay tuned.

Western beauty is considered the dominant beauty in the world. Tall, blond, blue eyes. I always felt a little self-conscious because I wanted to be more Caucasian. I tried to get bigger eyes… I would dress preppy.

Less make-up is better, and it’s always better to let your natural beauty shine. Essentially, be happy with your appearance.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

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.

That’s the beauty about beauty; it’s not like a tattoo. You can just wash it right off, and your skin is your canvas, so you can do something new the next day.

In writing, I try to find the right balance between momentum and infinity, truth and beauty.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

Looking at flowers, simple things in life. I don’t need to look at gold and a castle; sometimes its very simple things that are very beautiful. I am keeping my eyes fresh to find beauty in many places, and in gold, too, sometimes!

It’s important for women to embrace their beauty and sexuality. Females are victimized and made to feel ashamed of their bodies, or they can’t be smart and beautiful, and I try to work against that.

There is a beauty and clarity that comes from simplicity that we sometimes do not appreciate in our thirst for intricate solutions.

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.

Gertrude Jekyll
The beauty of having your ego checked as many times as my ego was checked in Newark made me recognize how much I needed other people who were very different than me in order to get big things done.

I am quite familiar with Dubai and its design scene. I have been a regular visitor for more than 10 years. It is hard to name an area where hospitality, friendship, culture, ambition, and beauty are so highly regarded.

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

The beauty of comedy is, when people come to a comedy club, there is a certain veil of reality suspended.

I do love beauty. I love beautiful tilings. I grow orchids and collect butterflies. But when it comes to relationships, you have to find the person inside.

You don’t have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that’s where the beauty comes from.

Daphne Zuniga
Really, at the end of the day, the only thing you can control is yourself; the only person you can truly educate is yourself. You have to redefine what beauty is to you so you can’t be affected by what people are saying.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

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

George Herbert Mead
I like to embrace natural beauty. I try to get at least 8 hours of sleep, drinking a lot of water and exercising.

Jammu and Kashmir has a scenic beauty and I feel that the film industry rather than going abroad in countries like Switzerland and Australia, should visit Kashmir – which is the only Heaven on Earth for the shoots.

There is beauty in everything.

What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Gustave Courbet
I may be old-fashioned. But I believe there is such a thing as a search for beauty – a delight in the nice things in the world. And I don’t think one should have to apologise for it.

Saul Leiter
I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It’s the mark of civilisation.

What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.

My work is not about ‘form follows function,’ but ‘form follows beauty’ or, even better, ‘form follows feminine.’

Oscar Niemeyer
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Well the beauty of ‘Iyanla: Fix My Life’ is that men are in every show. To our surprise, some of the deepest healing demonstrations have been with the men – the sons, the fathers, the husbands – because they agree to participate with the wife or the daughter or whatever it is we are looking at, and it is there.

Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.

I have been honoured to serve the whales, dolphins, seals – and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me.

What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

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.

How goodness heightens beauty!

And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.

Inner beauty radiates from within, and there’s nothing more beautiful than when a woman feels beautiful on the inside.

Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

Daniel Burnham
Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You’ve got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I’ve got my Freud mixed up. It’s just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.

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

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Arthur Helps
I have beauty, intelligence, individuality, sensuality and sexuality.

Shannon Tweed
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.

Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.

Sappho
Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people – the beauty within themselves.

We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.

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

Julia Margaret Cameron
Beauty comes in all forms. It’s not just external; it’s internal as well.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

Black beauty – he’s a dark horse.

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Robert Motherwell
The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever go to war, leave alone win it. It was, as Yeats remarked of the Easter Rising, ‘A terrible beauty.’

Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

Theophile Gautier
If you think beauty pageants are all about perfections, then I am sorry to say, it is not like that.

We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.

Junichiro Tanizaki
Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature’s tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

Fashion should be genderless; how people perceive the idea of beauty can vary from one to another.

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.

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

Here I sit, beneath the large window of a first-floor Georgian flat, exploring the corridors of my sordid imagination for comedic words of beauty.

Matt Roper
Mother liked beauty wherever she found it, and she found it in many different places, both in nature and in contemporary art. And that’s where they pretty much parted company. Father… anything that was abstract would to him automatically be not very good.

It was Chicago with its World’s Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.

Daniel Burnham
The more often we see the things around us – even the beautiful and wonderful things – the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds – even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.

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

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability – they should go hand in hand.

Donald Norman
The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.

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

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

Christopher Marlowe
I was not a good-lookin’ girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn’t pretty. I wasn’t cool.

As a Californian, I feel lucky to live in what is truly the Golden State – a place of sunshine, agricultural bounty, natural beauty, technological innovation, and boundless optimism.

My definition of God is the highest supreme feeling of beauty and light and happiness.

Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.

Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

It’s amazing what sleep does for your looks.

Being a beauty queen was never on my radar.

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what’s really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.

True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer‘s hand.

As a busy working mom I’m always pressed for time, so a quick and easy beauty routine is key!

What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things.

I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice.

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

Francesca da Rimini
What the canons of beauty transmit is an idea of taking care of yourself. Eating well, living healthily, doing sports. It’s a way to highlight the natural beauty in each of us. The natural body that all of us are born with.

You, Eternal Trinity, are my Creator, and I am the work of Your hands, and I know through the new creation which You have given me in the blood of Your Son, that You are enamored of the beauty of Your workmanship.

Catherine of Siena
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frank Norris
A rainbow is the product of physics working for your appreciation of beauty.

There’s a certain beauty and majesty to Wimbledon. The elegance, the way the grass looks on TV.

That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.

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

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

Let me tell you something – being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age – as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Exuberance is beauty.

From afar, we know we have a great land, dominated by so many different forms of terrain, and we’ve got amazing and unique animals, and the climate, the beauty and the brutality of it. But I think the detail, and the intimate element of it, I think we’re kind of a little bit lost on it.

It’s not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

‘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.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

The Western man declares that in order to be beautiful, a woman must look 14 years old. If she dares to look 50, or worse, 60, she is beyond the pale. By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.

Samuel Daniel
Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.

George Edward Moore
From his roots as a slave, the American Negro – sometimes sorrowing, sometimes jubilant but always hopeful – has touched, illuminated, and influenced the most remote preserves of world civilisation. I and my dance theater celebrate this trembling beauty.

Alvin Ailey
I truly believe diversity is beauty.

Beauty is what I believe in. I want to act and make decisions based on what I believe.

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

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

Bernard Berenson
I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil liberties in the first 10 Amendments – the Bill of Rights. I’m a firm believer in those civil liberties and the ability to have your own opinion.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

I love my beauty. It’s not my fault.

Valentino Garavani
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty.

Jean Genet
The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

Eliza Farnham
Beauty is too easy. Often in my work, I take beautiful objects and do extreme things to them so that they are overlaid with something a bit more sinister and violent.

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects – making it possible… to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

Focused reading is so important, and I’m just as guilty as everyone. I have to force myself to slow down, often printing things out or using print as a medium for things that are most important or for things whose beauty would be lost if I use other modes of reading.

We’re here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That’s what art forms are about.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty.

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

I don’t love Photoshop; I like imperfection. It doesn’t mean ugly. I love a girl with a gap between her teeth, versus perfect white veneers. Perfection is just… boring. Perfect is what’s natural or real; that is beauty.

My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they’re beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.

With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn’t just about being noticed, you know?

Beauty is the lover‘s gift.

William Congreve
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

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

Tia Carrere
The beauty about the playoffs is how you make an adjustment, how you come back game-to-game, and to be locked in and focused to win.

We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined – the impression was overwhelming.

Howard Carter
At an early age I discovered the beauty in pictures in ‘Voguemagazine and Ebony magazine, and I would read ‘The New York Times.’ I had to make my own world within my world because I was an only child.

Enhancing a woman’s silhouette and enhancing a woman’s beauty – both contribute to enhancing her confidence, so they’re synonymous, really.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Oliver Platt
True beauty is born through our actions and aspirations and in the kindness we offer to others.

My message is: beauty has no gender. At the end of the day beauty is beauty.

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

She got her looks from her father. He’s a plastic surgeon.

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.

L Wolfe Gilbert
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

I don’t see the desert as barren at all; I see it as full and ripe. It doesn’t need to be flattered with rain. It certainly needs rain, but it does with what it has, and creates amazing beauty.

Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes of passing strangers; but behind the walls of the houses, enclosed from public view, lie cherished gardens, full of the beauty of life.

People say I’m extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

My idea of beauty is somebody that doesn’t have to try too much, someone who is effortless and fresh.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

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

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

It’s a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I’d be rotten to the core.

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

I feel it is important not to get overly obsessed and overly carried away with just the physical aspect. There is more to beauty than just the physical appearance. You are also a complete person, and a woman should have an identity beyond just the way she looks.

To me, beauty is inclusion – every size, every color – that’s the world I live in.

Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!

All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.

My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you see. Love is something you feel.

Sharon Tate
I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind.

Jessica Hagedorn
The Lord did not people the earth with a vibrant orchestra of personalities only to value the piccolos of the world. Every instrument is precious and adds to the complex beauty of the symphony.

I like creating beauty out of scary things.

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

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.

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what’s really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.

Beauty at 70 years old isn’t the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.

I love natural beauty, and I think it’s your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so transformative.

Being natural is incredibly empowering for women because it’s just who you are. You’re embracing all the beautiful things about you from your head to your toes. Because when you mask so much of your natural beauty, people don’t get to see that.

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

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

That’s the beauty of coaching. You get to touch lives, you get to make a difference. You get to do things for people who will never pay you back and they say you never have had a perfect day until you’ve done something for someone who will never pay you back.

Morgan Wootten
You have to spend some energy and effort to see the beauty of math.

Maryam Mirzakhani
What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

I never quite understood why Disney hadn’t made a sincere fairy tale since ‘Beauty and the Beast.’

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.

Alicia Machado
Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn’t define you as a person. Rather, it’s an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

G H Hardy
The beauty of diversification is it’s about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.

My father was a scientist and his colleagues were into pathology and microbiology, and study of viruses and how it spreads and mutates, so I understand the beauty with which nature works and more beautifully how our immune systems work.

A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.

Rudolf Otto
My favourite animal is the koala, but his life would be boring. I would rather be a giraffe so that I could contemplate the beauty of Africa.

Caterina Murino
For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

Theophile Gautier
You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a ‘goddess circle‘.

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

Matthew Prior
I like a girl with natural beauty.

Chandler Parsons
Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

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.

Congress has an obligation to protect our country’s natural beauty, embodied in our nation’s parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes.

Beauty is a fragile gift.

Suddenly life has new meaning to me, there’s beauty up above and things we never take notice of, you wake up suddenly you’re in love.

Billy Ocean
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art – and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone – the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it’s sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.

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.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

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.

If you do something that you’re proud of, that someone else understands, that is a thing of beauty that wasn’t there before – you can’t beat that.

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

Akhenaton
The beauty of the game is strength, stamina and technique and when you shorten the game, technique goes for a toss and the quality of badminton will surely go down in this system.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

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.

Growing up, I was obsessed with Disney movies like ‘The Little Mermaid,’ ‘Aladdin’ and ‘Beauty And The Beast.’ I was always singing the songs from these movies, so to find myself in the studio with Alan Menken was an amazing experience. In fact, it was a dream come true.

Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

Redd Foxx
Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don’t have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there’s poetry written right on the bathroom wall.

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside.

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within – strength, courage, dignity.

Black beauty – he’s a dark horse.

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.

James Beattie
That’s the beauty of being a straight-to-DVD star. It really helps you stay under the media‘s radar.

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow‘s joy is possible only if today’s makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

Beauty seen is never lost, God’s colors all are fast.

John Greenleaf Whittier
There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.

Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do with the attractions which command our admiration.

Samuel Lover
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

Sunscreen, in the world of beauty, is the ultimate in adulting.

Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo’s sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey’s angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Beauty is in the character of a person. It’s about having an interesting face and about what’s inside. Anyone can take a good picture.

Patrick Demarchelier
I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.

Tila Tequila
Coral reefs represent some of the world’s most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of the sea’s most exquisite species will not survive.

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty.

Jean Genet
No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.

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.

Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.

Polykarp Kusch
Beauty doesn’t matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart.

Ann Curry
This idea that being youthful is the only thing that’s beautiful or attractive simply isn’t true. I don’t want to be an ‘ageless beauty.’ I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.

I always keep a damp beauty blender and a powder compact in my purse, and I touch up a lot.

People probably think I’m cute because I have dimples and am friendly and always smiling. But beauty is different. In Chinese, people say I have chi ze, which means aura or a strong sense of presentation. It’s not about my look.

Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature’s greatest healers.

Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that’s the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.

I am a natural beauty. I can wear sweatpants and running shoes and I stop traffic on the street – people have accidents when they drive and they spot me.

What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry and in great musical or singing performances. There is beauty everywhere if you can just see it.

I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.

Peggy Fleming
I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Jean Kerr
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

Every performance is different. That’s the beauty of it.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance.

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!

Alexander Alekhine
The radical otherness of birds is integral to their beauty and their value. They are always among us but never of us. Their indifference to us ought to serve as a chastening reminder that we’re not the measure of all things.

Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two – beauty and violence – live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.

Ori Gersht
There’s a lot of beauty in the world, so go hang out and go be a part of the solution rather than the problem.

Citizens of Ukraine will never enjoy the beauty of peace unless we settle down our relations with Russia.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.

Murray Kempton
I think storytelling is a thing of beauty, and also very difficult. It’s a craft you have to continue to work at.

I pretty much borrow my entire beauty regime from my mom.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

Italy‘s assets are her style, her beauty, her creativity, her passion, her energy, her technology; and these will be core brand values of all our cars. Fiat as a company has a long way to go and a steep road ahead.

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

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

Matthew Arnold
When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to get a sheet of paper and pencil and crack out all the details. Hundreds and hundreds of pages. Because you have to prove it.

Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face.

Dolores del Rio
Honestly, Korean beauty standards are harsh. People are even putting pressure on non-celebrities to be super skinny, and the standards of thinness are just getting worse.

There’s beauty in pain, and everyone experiences it – and it’s a lesson.

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.

Any saxophone player will have those influences come through in their music in a very different way. I can listen to the same 10 sax players as someone else for my entire life, and we’ll both play completely differently. That’s the beauty of being a musician.

While traveling around the world, I’ve had the opportunity to work with every living beauty icon. I’ve learned to appreciate idiosyncrasy. The fact is, there is really no such thing as ‘normal‘ – everybody‘s different, and that is the essence of their beauty.

You have to embrace your body, whether it’s curvy or whatever you may be. You have to embrace who you are. Beauty comes from the inside not out.

Sleeping and water are lifesavers – that’s true beauty right there.

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

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

Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.

Sara Teasdale
I believe it is only when one comes out of adversity, that one starts to see real beauty.

I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don’t expect it.

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

Beauty is what I feel my life is about – the garden, the house, whatever. I see the world that way, yet it isn’t.

Look after yourself from within, and your beauty will shine through on your skin.

Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

The privilege I’ve had as a curator is not just the discovery of new works… but what I’ve discovered about myself and what I can offer in the space of an exhibition – to talk about beauty, to talk about power, to talk about ourselves, and to talk and speak to each other.

Thelma Golden
A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

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

Everybody does what she needs. And if you want plastic surgery, and then you feel better, why not? There is no law. I’ve nothing against using something to help your beauty – but do it in a good way, with intelligence.

Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.

Self-care is the non-negotiable. That’s the thing that you have to do. And beauty is the thing that can be the benefit of the self-care. Beauty is not the point. Beauty is just a cute side-effect from self-care.

When it comes to the qualities that I look for in a partner, I’d say looks are a factor but the inner beauty is more important as it adds to the personality.

There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection.

I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect – they are much more interesting.

Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.

Kangana Ran

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I’ve suffered quite a lot, to the point where I’ve experienced death. Years before I wasn’t fit to die, but I understand life better now. Death is nice, death is beauty.

Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.

Luis Barragan
I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.

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

Beauty is not generic, bland, and clinical. It isn’t all things to all people. The Cathedral of Notre Dame in its endlessly intricate detail was beautiful. Modern office buildings are not.

This whole beauty thing is something I’ve never comprehended.

‘A Court of Thorns and Roses‘ was actually inspired by three of my all-time-favorite fairy/folktales: ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ ‘East of the Sun, West of the Moon‘ and ‘Tam Lin.’ I got the kernel of inspiration by wondering: ‘What if ‘Beauty’ was a huntress?’

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

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

San Francisco is a mad city – inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy – how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.

When you feel great, you emanate a certain energy that translates as beautiful. I don’t care if you have the standard beauty or not; it’s that X-factor that comes through, and the basis of that is good health.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

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.

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

We all love a bit of ‘true love conquers all,’ and when I started on ‘Poison,’ ‘Charm’ and ‘Beauty,’ that was one rule of the fairy tale formula that I didn’t want to break.

If you can visualize the whole of spring and see Paradise with the eye of belief, you may understand the utter majesty of everlasting Beauty. If you respond to that Beauty with the beauty of belief and worship, you will be a most beautiful creature.

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I’ve never experienced it?

Maggie Grace
I adore India, its culture, and all the beauty of the nation. My father is from Jammu, and he’s had a profound influence on my mindset and way of being.

We’re here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That’s what art forms are about.

Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone’s face or body.

Devon Aoki
My best beauty secret ever is to drink a lot of water!

Anna Ewers
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

There’s a kind of beauty to a skyscraper.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

There’s no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It’s beautiful, I call that beauty.

Cogsworth, the character I did on ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ could be a bit flamboyant onscreen, because basically, he is a cartoon. But they didn’t want Cogsworth to become Disney’s gay character, because it got around a gay man was playing him.

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.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.

Doris Day
People can see a picture of my body from the neck down and know who it is because of my beauty marks or whatever you call them, moles. I’ve always had them, and I’ve always loved them. Obviously you have to be careful with that; I get them checked regularly and make sure that they’re healthy.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

Homer
Beauty is grace and confidence. I’ve learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world’s beauty, is everything!

We’ve all lived through something horrific, but the strength and beauty and knowledge that we’re going to win eventually is what keeps me going.

‘Changes in Latitudes’ began when I was looking at a photograph of a sea turtle swimming underwater. I had such a strong feeling for the beauty of this ancient creature, at home in the sea. On the spot, I wanted to swim with that turtle. I began to imagine a character who would do just that.

Will Hobbs
Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

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.

It’s not just Ethiopia, but Africa in general – most of the media concentrates on what’s not going well. But there is so much beauty there. When you go, it changes everything. It changes you, your life, and the way you see things. The challenge is changing the image of Africa that’s been anchored in people for years now.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

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.

My interpretation of the word ‘ugly’… I like ugly beauty. That can happen. In France, we have phrase ‘jolie laide.’ We like certain women who are not pretty or cute – it’s the opposite in France of pretty. It’s more strange and interesting.

The ever-renewed instances of beauty and fairness passing over the faces of the beings in the universe show that they are shadows of the manifestations of an Eternal Beauteous One.

Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, ‘Aw, her life must be amazing.’ Everyone does it. That’s human nature to believe that beauty is everything.

Beauty is not just a white girl. It’s so many different flavors and shades.

This idea that being youthful is the only thing that’s beautiful or attractive simply isn’t true. I don’t want to be an ‘ageless beauty.’ I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.

This great country, this India, is woven of the rich individual strands of our regions, languages, religions, traditions, and communities through the ages. Yet its vibrant beauty can be seen only as a whole, a single seamless fabric, much greater than the sum of all the strands.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance.

It’s nice to just embrace the natural beauty within you.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

I despise women wearing too much makeup. It hides their actual beauty.

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

I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs – at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral.

Mascara can definitely be one of the hardest parts of the beauty routine. Nothing is worse than when you are applying your mascara, and you’ve worked an hour on the most flawless blended eye shadow, and with one slip of the finger, your mascara is all over your face.

You can’t stand at the Bellagio and watch these seven story fountains and not go, ‘That’s something of extraordinary man-made beauty.’

No beauty shines brighter than that of a good heart.

I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.

Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.

Mahmoud Darwish
You don’t have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don’t need any special equipment – that’s the beauty of it.

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

Lew Wallace
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.

Christian Dior
The beauty of ‘spacing’ children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones – which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

Hosea Ballou
I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

Amelia Earhart
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

We have been educated into believing someone else’s concept of the deity, and someone else’s standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don’t apologize.

Cherish sunsets, wild creatures and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth.

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.

We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery also has its beauty. Neither do I believe that the spirit of adventure runs any risk of disappearing in our world.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Joseph Wood Krutch
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you’re an artist.

The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.

Malcolm de Chazal
That’s part of the beauty of being an actress: you get to explore different facets of what it is to be a human being and what it is to explore different personalities, and actually, that’s one of the things I love about it.

Life isn’t always really glamorous and fabulous. It’s about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty.

An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness.

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.

Gertrude Jekyll
Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.

Rosalind Russell
When I pray, I always thank Mother Nature for all the beauty in the world. It’s about having an attitude of gratitude.

Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they’ve spent time in and around the ocean, and they’ve personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet‘s blue heart.

Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?

Clara Schumann
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.

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

To me, beauty is natural beauty. If you’re naturally yourself, you’re beautiful.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds – but we still have the power to change our own.

Ally Condie
My approach to beauty is all about moods. If you want to feel sexy, if you want to feel feminine or, I don’t know, boyish – it’s all about how you feel at that point in time. My mood changes.

Beauty comes from the inside.

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

My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.

If you don’t die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.

Beauty is less important than quality.

Eugene Ormandy
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Beauty without expression is boring.

You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave.

Giuseppe Garibaldi
My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it.

Natasha Henstridge
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul’s own doing.

Marie Stopes
Beauty for me is the attitude behind something. But my ideals of beauty are rather different.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone‘s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn’t mean it does not exist.

Beauty is being comfortable and confident in your own skin.

I’m not out here to win a beauty contest.

Kirk Gibson
Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

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

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

Gustave Courbet
As a girl, you’re supposed to love Sleeping Beauty. I mean, who wants to love Sleeping Beauty when you can be Aladdin?

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.

I don’t need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.

Just try the effect of putting beauty into your life, a little every day. You will find it magical. It will broaden and light up your outlook upon the world as the acquisition of money or fame never can.

Makeup is not a mask that covers up your beauty; it’s a weapon that helps you express who you are from the inside.

I’m proud that today, at 43 years old, I’ve come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

Truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Nadine Gordimer
Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Happy Skin is all about natural beauty. They don’t want you to wear something that’s harsh on your skin and I want that as well.

Cosmetics makers have always sold ‘hope in a jar‘ – creams and potions that promise youth, beauty, sex appeal, and even love for the women who use them.

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.

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

William Congreve
Everything in nature has its own intrinsic charm, as the work of its Creator’s hand; but the chief beauty of the whole lies in its suggested relations to humanity. Things announce and wait for persons. The house would not have been thus beautifully built and furnished, except for an expected tenant.

My beauty secret is to try to keep my heart as open and happy as I can, because it really makes the sad lines on my face look better.

The beauty comes with the balance. Everyone should find his own balance in his personal as well as his professional life. Once you do so, you will feel and look beautiful.

Karolina Kurkova
Conservation is key to preserving many of the world’s natural beauty spots, so do your best to help by keeping to designated footpaths and being a discerning souvenir collector.

The landscape painter must walk in the fields with a humble mind. No arrogant man was ever permitted to see Nature in all her beauty.

Poetry allies itself with beauty – a supreme union – but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment.

Saint-John Perse
For all of nature’s wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.

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.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

I feel it is important not to get overly obsessed and overly carried away with just the physical aspect. There is more to beauty than just the physical appearance. You are also a complete person, and a woman should have an identity beyond just the way she looks.

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.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Max Eastman
Beauty has no boundaries, no rules, no colors. Beauty is like a religion. You can include everything inside it.

The achievement is appreciation. Your ability to be surprised and awed by beauty!

I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don’t work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.

I really believe that beauty comes from health – sensible eating and exercise.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle‘s wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance… and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.

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

The beauty of any artwork is that it becomes the person that’s watching it: What do you take out of it?

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.

You have to understand, beauty differs from country to country. When I came to India, I found my sense of belonging and appreciation. People thought I was beautiful.

While Pickstown may not be what it once was, it still is framed by the natural beauty of the ancient river, the sweep of the Great Plains, and the long, unbroken shoreline of the lake behind the dam. It gave me a 19th-century childhood in a modern mid-20th-century town, and for that I will always be grateful.