Beauty Quotes

Beauty, which I admit to being in pursuit of, is an extremely suspect word among many in the art world. But I don't think you can get along without it. It's the confirmation of meaning in life.

There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.

I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.

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

I wish to explore the beauty of everyday environments; in troubled times it is especially important to be aware of beauty and wonder.

Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it.

Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.

You can see beauty in everything, except for yourself.

All land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty.

I want to spend as much time as possible with my children, so I always like to keep my beauty and fashion routines effortless... but still chic!

In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted.

That a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

I've never thought of my jewelry as trophies. I'm here to take care of it and to love it, for we are only temporary custodians of beauty.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me; As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.

I am breathing in and out. Realizing this, I began to notice that each moment was not without its beauty.

At one level inspiration is the ability to see beauty and mystery in everything men and women do.

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands.

Home Run portrays the church in its beauty--true life transformation through real and honest relationships with one another and with Jesus.

Then be sure of one thing: The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have. The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.

O, if so much beauty doth reveal Itself in every vein of life and nature, How beautiful must be the Source itself, The Ever Bright One.

The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.

Serenity and inner beauty come when we wait upon God. "Waiting" like that is not merely wasting time.

Out of the chaos, the future emerges in harmony and beauty.

Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome.

I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.

Jeanne Moreau, Lauren Bacall, they had this unconventional beauty, this amazing charisma.

It's a great beauty tip, if you ever want to look five years younger, to shave off your eyebrows. It's amazing what it does. It really shaves off the years.

What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.

The beautiful is always severe.

Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil beauty as in those unsung, unpainted hills of Pennsylvania.

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion itself.

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

And at five o'clock in the morning we left to drive to Old Tucson, and I sat with my mouth open in the van. I was stunned by the beauty of that country.

Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.

I am concerned about ageism and the loss of beauty - the perception that as you grow older, you 'lose your looks,' which I think is diabolical.

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.

Your soul craves truth, beauty, wonder, love. Your soul craves to dream, to imagine, and even simply to understand. Your soul craves to connect, to commune, to create.

The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.

The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection.

It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness - just in case they, and not beauty, are the real things of value.

Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.

Playing guitar is not a beauty contest.