Beauty Quotes - Page 23

• I truly, truly believe that beauty is something that comes from within.

  Emma Watson

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Believe

  "Emma Watson: I wear too much makeup". www.today.com. April 18, 2013.

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• Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Adventure, Flying, Aviation

  Charles A. Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh (2003). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Faces, Glances, Meekness

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.83, Heron Dance Press

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• If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

  Robert Browning

  Attitude, Simple, Simply Beautiful

  'Fra Lippo Lippi' (1855) l. 217

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• People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

  Vivienne Westwood

  People, Ugly, Today

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• When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.

  Christy Turlington

  Mind, Needs, Body

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• You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, God, Christian

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

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• As I hold the flower in my hand and think of trying to describe it, I realize how poor a creature I am, how impotent are words in the presence of such perfection.

  Celia Thaxter

  Flower, Thinking, Hands

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.76, Applewood Books

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• The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes; Their white is stays for ever, Their red it never dies; But Phyllida, my Phillida! Her colour comes and goes; It trembles to a lily,-- It wavers to a rose.

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Eye, White, Rose

  'The Ladies of St James's' (1883)

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• The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even tho' it is vast and empty and untouchable... and knows no kindness with all its beauty.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Kindness, Cutting, Desert

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.365, UPNE

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• The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.

  John Ruskin

  Animal, Intellectual, Moral

  John Ruskin (1849). “Of ideas of beauty”, p.97

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• Know that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Beautiful, Ugly, Remains

  Robinson Jeffers, James Karman, Una Jeffers (2009). “The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers: With Selected Letters of Una Jeffers”, p.65, Stanford University Press

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• Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.

  David Hockney

  Hate, Artist, People

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• To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art.

  Theophile Gautier

  Art, Tasks, Difficult

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• It was Matisse who took the first step into the undiscovered land of the ugly.

  Gelett Burgess

  Land, Ugly, Firsts

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• I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Faces, Admire, Discouraging

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• What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Sovereign, Conventions, Ugliness

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• For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in the gestures of the common people had beauty. Middle-class people held no appeal for me at all.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Class, People, Movement

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.43, Northwestern University Press

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• Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so seductive; but aesthetic experience itself degenerates into a kind of fetish or idol if it is held up as an end in itself, untested by the rest of life.

  Roger Kimball

  Art, Idols, Rest Of Life

  Roger Kimball (2000). “Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age”, Ivan R Dee

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• Why should beauty be suspect?

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Should, Suspects

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• Mud, rubbish and dirt are man's companions all his life; shouldn't they be precious to him, and isn't one doing man's service to remind him of their beauty?

  Jean Dubuffet

  Men, Dirt, Mud

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• Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.

  William Morris Hunt

  Pieces, Paper, Sand

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• Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.

  Yann Martel

  Beautiful, Dirty, Love Is

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.60, Vintage Canada

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• 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.

  Eric Maisel

  Jobs, Real, Artist

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• I don't want it all to be pretty - it's a combination of loss and gain. Things are born, live and hang in limbo. That's what life's about.

  Cornelia Parker

  Loss, Want, Gains

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