Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Sackville-West, Vita

Best Quotes about Beauty

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

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

O'Hara, Frank

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)

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

Kotomichi

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man -- the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Baudelaire, Charles

11.

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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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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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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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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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bejar, Hada

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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

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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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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

Sappho

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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

Berry, Halle

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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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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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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 the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Keats, John

35.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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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

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

Margaret Cho

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

Banks, Tyra

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Benjamin, Walter

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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

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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.