Beauty Quotes - Page 66

All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.

I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.

Beauty will save the world

In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty -he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world -alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art.

If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory.

There's nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty.

Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.

In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.

Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more.

What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.

O, if so much beauty doth reveal Itself in every vein of life and nature, How beautiful must be the Source itself, The Ever Bright One.

And at five o'clock in the morning we left to drive to Old Tucson, and I sat with my mouth open in the van. I was stunned by the beauty of that country.

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of such beauty as may spring from mathematics.

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.

The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection.

Beauty crowds me till I die.

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

I don't sell cosmetics, I sell hope.

Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it.

One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.

I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.

An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.