Beauty Quotes - Page 24

The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that corresponds with the right reason, and it is not merely the creature of fancy.

Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty or twenty-five links on your chain? Hedda Gabler, Nora and the rest: it is not that I want! I want Rome and the Coliseum, the Acropolis, Athens; I want beauty, and the flame of life.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.

If we look at the world with a love of life, the world will reveal its beauty to us.

Incredibly, inordinately, devastatingly, immortally, calamitously, hearteningly, adorably beautiful.

Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.

True beauty consists of purity of heart.

You don't need to look like everybody else. Love who you are.

Beauty might bring happiness, but happiness always brings beauty.

Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat. Nature is full of genius. Full of the divinity. So that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

I fell in love with beauty a long, long time ago, but what I wanted was to create beauty - not to be blinded by it.

No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears, Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn, Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn, Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.

You're only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake.

The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the heart's anxious and aching cares are softly smiled away.

Every person is able to add beauty, whether by growing flowers, or singing, or cooking luscious meals, or raising sweet pets. Every part of life can be art.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

I'd rather be hit by a gorgeous man than an ugly one.

How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.

Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.

I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.