Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.

- Paz, Octavio

Best Quotes about Beauty

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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

Picasso, Pablo

The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring.

Philips, Ambrose

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

Ruskin, John

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

People often say that'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,'and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

Salma Hayek

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Frye, Northrop

Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable --should persist after the beauty was gone.

Arnim, Mary

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

Baudelaire, Charles

10.

To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.

Shakespeare, William

11.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Anouilh, Jean

12.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty --he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world --alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Anne Frank

15.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

16.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

18.

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.

Bataille, Georges

19.

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

Huxley, Aldous

20.

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

Wolf, Naomi

21.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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

Andre, Father

24.

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

Teale, Edwin Way

25.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Sackville-West, Vita

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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.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

28.

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

29.

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

Proverb, French

30.

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.

Dante Alighieri

31.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

32.

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty.

Eliot, George

33.

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Margaret Cho

34.

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

35.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

36.

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

Augustine, St.

37.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

38.

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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If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.

Teena Booth

40.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

41.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

42.

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

43.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Wey, Hermann

44.

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

Margaret Cho

45.

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

Quincey, Thomas De

46.

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

47.

Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. [Song Of Solomon 4:1]

Bible

48.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

49.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what my grandma taught me.

Heller, Elizabeth

50.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim