What Is Beauty Quotes

The purpose of creation is beauty. Nature in all its various aspects develops towards beauty, and therefore it is plain that the purpose of life is to evolve towards beauty.

Maid of the luminous grey-eyes, Mistress of honey and marble implacable white thighs and Goddess, chaste daughter of Zeus.

It is easier to gaze into the sun, than into the face of the mystery of God. Such is its beauty and its radiance.

Awareness is a mirror reflecting the four elements. Beauty is a heart that generates love and a mind that is open.

Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

The full beauty of the subject of generating functions emerges only from tuning in on both channels: the discrete and the continuous.

Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.

The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

All powerful money gives birth and beauty. [Lat., Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat.]

Elijah looks angelic but his beauty of spirit is what makes his Frodo leap out of the screen. Unalloyed goodness is one of the most difficult attributes to act.

I don't have to go very far to see the power of beauty. Being desired, feeling desired is a very seductive aspect of our being.

Realist artists should join together in a worldwide effort... Sharing it with each other and teaching it - that is the key to the success and never-ending beauty and harmony of Realism.

Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or chilling a single earnest sentiment.

Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego.

I choose to paint beauty.

To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to attempt to fully understand.

While men define themselves by deeds, women simply "are" beauty, grace, faith and goodness. Men tend to be rational and objective, women subjective, intuitive and emotional.

Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.

The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end in martyrdom.

As all curves have reference to their centres or foci, so all beauty of character has reference to the soul, and is a graceful gesture of recognition or waving of the body toward it.

The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon them.

Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !

Beauty ensnares hearts, captures minds, and stirs up emotional wildfires. From Plato to pinups, images of human beauty have catered to a limitless desire to see and imagine an ideal human form.

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

Beauty draws us in. We can't stop looking or listening or touching. It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's essential to life and to happiness.

Finishing is torture... There's always some newly seen flaw. But the little glimpses of beauty between the anxiety make it worth it.

But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following.

Like small children you must have a very clean heart to accept, to absorb the beauty of peace that is within you and also the beauty of purity. Without purity, you cannot enjoy anything.

So, twice a week, I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It’s cheaper by far than psychoanalysis, and much more uplifting.

Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by a man incapable of it.

Beauty, delicacy and position-these were the foundations of courtly equestrianism

Because beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their beauty and their death.

The experiences of the heartless are so limited. It is hate that is blind. Love may miss a flaw here and there, but hate misses beauty everywhere.

The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchange of smiles with Beauty and Joy to cling to irksome duties and relations?

Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you...

O cold ! O shivery ! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once.

Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.

As I continued to fall into the dark void, embraced by the vault of the heavens, I sang to the beauty of the stars and made my peace with the darkness.

Like pleasure, beauty should be savored and enjoyed

We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love.

I am a parasite off beauty.

Quite honestly, a baby covered in blood, still slightly blue, eyes screwed up, in the first few minutes after birth, is not an object of beauty.

You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.

The beauty of golf, you're in charge out here.

Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.