Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Benjamin, Walter

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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

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

Berry, Halle

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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)

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

10.

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

Kraus, Karl

11.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

12.

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

Paz, Octavio

13.

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

Philips, Ambrose

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

Picasso, Pablo

15.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

16.

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

O'Hara, Frank

17.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

18.

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Wilde, Oscar

19.

Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come

20.

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

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Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Immermann

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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

24.

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

25.

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

Banks, Tyra

26.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Keats, John

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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

28.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

29.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

John Constable

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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own --even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Porter, Katherine Anne

31.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

32.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

33.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

34.

What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

Scott Westerfeld

35.

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

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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.

Navajo, Edward A.

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Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

Aristotle

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

Bejar, Hada

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

Louie Schwartzberg

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

43.

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

John Cage

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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Lubbock, Sir John

48.

Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard