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

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

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Morley, Christopher

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

Ruskin, John

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

Kraus, Karl

Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Mumford, Lewis

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

10.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

11.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

12.

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

Prager, Emily

13.

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

Spenser, Edmund

14.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

15.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

16.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

17.

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

18.

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

Andre, Father

19.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

20.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

21.

Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.

Huxley, Aldous

22.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

23.

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

O'Hara, Frank

24.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

25.

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

Immermann

26.

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Plotinus

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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.

Nathan, Robert

28.

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

29.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

30.

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

Teale, Edwin Way

31.

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

32.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

33.

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

34.

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

Paz, Octavio

35.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Bejar, Hada

37.

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

38.

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due -- she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

Forster, Edward M.

39.

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

Anouilh, Jean

40.

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

Allen, James

41.

A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

43.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

44.

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.

Paglia, Camille

45.

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

Kotomichi

46.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Dillard, Annie

47.

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

Hubbard, Kin

48.

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days]

Berry, Halle

49.

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

50.

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