Beauty Quotes - Page 52

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.

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.

If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.

Even beauty may present a prism wearying to the eye.

We all share beauty. It strikes us indiscriminately. There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty. If we take pictures of them and blow up the photographs, we realize we walk on beauty every day, even when things seem ugly around us.

One's fetishes are fascinating, but not because of their beauty or significance. The same could be said for one's genitals, or one's children.

Rhythm, symmetry, and a happy combination of elegance and utility - a blend often desired in later days of hope and struggle - these have been fully attained, and with them a delight in quiet communion with Nature, expressing as she does the sense of beauty in orderliness.

Doubtless almost any intense emotion may open our 'inward eye' to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it for some people. The beauties of nature or the exhilaration of artistic creation does it for others. Probably any high experience may momentarily stretch our souls up on tiptoe, so that we catch a glimpse of that marvelous beauty which is always there, but which we are not often tall enough to perceive.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside.

You define beauty for yourself, society doesn’t define your beauty. Your spirit and your faith defines your beauty.

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

There's more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty.

Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.

Beauty is its own excuse.

Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution.

To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.

The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.

Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.

I am in control of all decisions that have to do with my image, which means that no one will decide what’s right for me except me. I’m not special. We should all feel this way about ourselves.