Beauty Quotes - Page 67

And still the mad magnificent herald Spring assembles beauty from forgetfulness with the wild trump of April:witchery of sound and odour drives the wingless thing man forth in the bright air.

Next to that kid, we all look like onions.

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

But if it ever occurs to people to value the honor of the mind equally with the honor of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort — and very different from the kind that is being made at the moment.

Women are slaves to their beauty.

Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.

I'm in the public eye, so I don't care who knows what I get done. If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I get it sucked, tucked, or plucked.

Death is the mother of beauty.

There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived from Reason, or from Sentiment; whether we attain the knowledge of them by a chain of argument and induction, or by an immediate feeling and finer internal sense; whether, like all sound judgement of truth and falsehood, they should be the same to every rational intelligent being; or whether, like the perception of beauty and deformity, they be founded entirely on the particular fabric and constitution of the human species.

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

I often tease young people about their concern for how they look; more important is inner beauty - compassion, affection and respect.

If you're considered a beauty, it's hard to be accepted doing anything but standing around.

The queen banishes Snow White because of her beauty. But the dwarves help Snow White because they're smitten by that very beauty. It teaches kids an important lesson: Nothing matters except for your looks.

Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction.

Pity! The southerly trees have shed their leaves. Nobody comes to appreciate the mountain's beauty. Tomorrow I too will float away. My reflection gone from cool streams.

Try to do ugly things so that you make them beautiful... The more delicate the thing is in nature the more one must look for the solemn note. Color in nature is never pretty, it's beautiful.

There is always the possibility of beauty where there is an unsealed human eye; of music where there is an unstopped human ear; and of inspiration where there is a receptive human spirit.

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

True beauty is to behold and reflect the beauty of God.

I wrote "Bootylicious" because, at the time, I’d gained some weight and the pressure that people put you under, the pressure to be thin, is unbelievable. I was just 18 and you shouldn’t be thinking about that. You should be thinking about building up your character and having fun and the song was just telling everyone just forget what people are saying. You’re bootylicious. That’s all. It’s a celebration of curves and a celebration of women’s bodies.

If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.

To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.

There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.