Motivational Quotes

Beauty

There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

- Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

Best Quotes about Beauty

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

Picasso, Pablo

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

O'Hara, Frank

What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.

Andre, Father

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Beauty and seduction is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we love.

Louie Schwartzberg

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?

Kotomichi

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

Teresa of Avila, St.

10.

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Teale, Edwin Way

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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

12.

What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Sontag, Susan

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

Klee, Paul

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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. -

Shakespeare, William

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Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Miller

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Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not fine yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labor to make all one glow or beauty and never cease chiseling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendor of virtue, until you see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine

Plotinus

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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Hubbard, Kin

31.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Howard, Vernon

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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.

Ruskin, John

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I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

Banks, Tyra

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Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.

Proverb, French

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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Bejar, Hada

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I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want --an adorable pancreas?

Kerr, Jean

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All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory -- of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

Baudelaire, Charles

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That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.

L'Enclos, Ninon De

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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

Camus, Albert

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The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.

Prager, Emily

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Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.

Cheryl Tiegs

46.

I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

Augustine, St.

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

Spenser, Edmund

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The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.

Greville, Lord

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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Marlowe, Christopher

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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Huxley, Aldous