Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.

- Paz, Octavio

Best Quotes about Beauty

What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.

Andre, Father

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

Bejar, Hada

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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

Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable --should persist after the beauty was gone.

Arnim, Mary

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Margaret Cho

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Sontag, Susan

10.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Howard, Vernon

11.

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

12.

The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

13.

Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Gibran, Kahlil

14.

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

15.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

16.

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

17.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

18.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

19.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

20.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

21.

Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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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We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

Teresa of Avila, St.

24.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

25.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.

Ruskin, John

26.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

Sackville-West, Vita

28.

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Teale, Edwin Way

29.

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Wilde, Oscar

30.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

31.

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

Margaret Cho

32.

The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.

Reverend Sean Parker Dennison

33.

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

Keats, John

34.

Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come

35.

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Hubbard, Kin

36.

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Plotinus

37.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Bataille, Georges

38.

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Frye, Northrop

39.

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

40.

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

Scott Westerfeld

41.

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

42.

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.

Navajo, Edward A.

43.

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.

Paz, Octavio

44.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Jean Kerr

45.

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

Pascal, Blaise

46.

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

47.

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

48.

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

Sand, George

49.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Lubbock, Sir John

50.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily