Beauty Quotes - Page 16

• Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

  William Morris

  Life, Happiness, Beautiful

  Hopes and Fears for Art "The Beauty of Life" (1882)

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• Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive it.

  Roger Scruton

  Voice, People, Demand

  Roger Scruton (2011). “Beauty: A Very Short Introduction”, p.11, Oxford University Press

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• We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Simple, Simplicity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.154, Harvard University Press

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• There is a thing about beauty. Beauty is always associated with the male fantasy of what the female body is. I don’t think there is anything wrong with beauty. It’s just what women think is beautiful can be different. And there can be a beauty in individualism. If there is a wart or a scar, this can be beautiful, in a sense, when you paint it.

  Jenny Saville

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Art

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• At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Lying, Heart

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.14, Vintage

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• To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

  Samuel Butler

  Pain, Compassion, Make Happy

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  Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

  Coco Chanel

  Funny, Birthday, Women

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• A women's greatest asset is her beauty.

  Alex Comfort

  Her Beauty, Empowering Women, Assets

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• I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Beautiful, Hurt, Growing Up

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

  Kin Hubbard

  Witty, Women, Literature

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• Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.

  Munshi Premchand

  Ornaments, Needs, Weight

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• Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

  Jean Rostand

  Art, Being Beautiful, Architecture

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Beautiful, God, Heart

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• Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?

  Sara Teasdale

  Happiness, Joy, Range

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.

  Loretta Young

  Believe, Home, Charity

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• Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.

  Sara Teasdale

  Heart, Bad Relationship, Beautiful Women

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Lust, Dresses, Doe

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• The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Men, Sight, Cities

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• Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.

  Plato

  Eye, Men, Reality

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.107, Penguin

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• Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Dear God, Marble

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• There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Art, Eye, Definitions

  Statement on February 17, 1859. "Pages from the Goncourt Journal". Book by Edmond de Goncourt, translated by Robert Baldick, p. 40, 1962.

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• Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

  Andre Breton

  Nadja (1926)

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• For nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

  Charles Dickens

  Good Morning, Time, Nature

  Charles Dickens (1839). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.207

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• Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

  Ashley Smith

  Life, Dream, Appreciation

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• I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

  Bob Dylan

  Patriotism, Should, Dylan

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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