Beauty - Quotes & Sayings

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Voltaire

Laughter and joy are part of the beauty of life.

Diogo Morgado

Sunscreen, in the world of beauty, is the ultimate in adulting.

Emily Weiss

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Victor Hugo

Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

Pablo Picasso

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

Albert Camus

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

Richard P. Feynman

I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.

Janelle Monae

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

Laurence J. Peter

Physical beauty isn't so impressive to me.

Dita Von Teese

What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength.

Annie Besant

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

William Congreve

There is something special about the beauty in the unclear, the ambiguity, the in-between that you can't totally recognise.

Alessandro Michele

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

Anthony Kiedis

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

Christina Rossetti

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

John Keats

Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.

Timothy Radcliffe

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

George Bernard Shaw

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

George Bernard Shaw

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Camille Paglia

I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.

Whitney Houston

I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.

Marc Jacobs

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their family, their friends, and their greater community.

Erin Gruwell

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.

Joanne Woodward

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

Chaim Potok

We all find joy and radiance and a reason to move on even in the most dire of circumstances. Even in chaos and madness, there's still a beauty that comes from just the vibrancy of another human spirit.

Ishmael Beah

The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.

Vik Muniz

Mongolia is a country of rich and ancient heritage, unique culture and astounding natural beauty. It is a land of free and brave, peace-loving and hard-working people.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

In the hierarchy of public lands, national parks by law have been above the rest: America's most special places, where natural beauty and all its attendant pleasures - quiet waters, the scents of fir and balsam, the hoot of an owl, and the dark of a night sky unsullied by city lights - are sacrosanct.

Michael Shnayerson

I marketed pens - on the phone. But the beauty of the gig was that you had to call these strangers and say, 'Hi, how ya doing?' You made up a name, like, 'Hey, it's Edward Quartermaine from California. You're eligible to receive this grandfather clock or a trip to Tahiti.' You promise them all these things if they buy a gross of pens.

Johnny Depp

Global warming will threaten our crops, so natural food will be scarce. Hourglass, curvy bodies will be the aspirational beauty standard, representing that those women have access to bounties of fulfilling yet healthy food, which means they are affluent.

Tyra Banks

Things are beautiful or ugly only in time and space. The new man's vision being liberated from these two factors, all is unified in one unique beauty.

Piet Mondrian

I am a thing of beauty.

Frank Sinatra

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

E. M. Forster

I don't have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop.

Jenifer Lewis

Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

Daniel Burnham

The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.

George Herbert Mead

All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.

Michael Franti

I think that something needs to be weird in order to have a real beauty.

Carine Roitfeld

I think we should all be tolerant of each other and embrace each others' strengths and differences and uniqueness and beauty.

Martina McBride

Women are blessed with lots and lots of extra ways to win or lose validation. If you're a woman, you'll be judged on your beauty and your wit and how often you smile. You'll be judged on how much hair you have in some places and not in others.

Faith Salie

There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind.

Jessica Hagedorn

Like the rest of the genetic lottery, beauty is unfair. Everyone falls short of perfection, but some are luckier than others. Real confidence requires self-knowledge, which includes recognizing one's shortcomings as well as one's strengths.

Virginia Postrel

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.

Charlie Haden

Any saxophone player will have those influences come through in their music in a very different way. I can listen to the same 10 sax players as someone else for my entire life, and we'll both play completely differently. That's the beauty of being a musician.

Kenny G

Red lipstick has been my beauty staple for years. I show up to Pilates or yoga at 8 A.M. wearing my red lipstick.

Liz Goldwyn

An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

Rosalind Russell