When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.

Beauty is what I feel my life is about - the garden, the house, whatever. I see the world that way, yet it isn't.

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

I want the ballet world to be given the respect that it deserves and to be seen by more people - for so many to experience the beauty that I've received from the ballet world.

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

Beauty is a fragile gift.

I don't think there were great beauty trends in the '90s - I was just doing my own thing.

It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

I don't get anything for free. I pay for all my beauty treatments.

I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within.

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

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

I truly try to create beauty and reflection and all of that as conscientiously and judiciously and minutely as I can.

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

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.

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

People can see a picture of my body from the neck down and know who it is because of my beauty marks or whatever you call them, moles. I've always had them, and I've always loved them. Obviously you have to be careful with that; I get them checked regularly and make sure that they're healthy.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

My mother was a beauty queen in her hey day. That's where I learnt a little about makeup and hair... I had never picked up or even seen a 'Vogue' before I was 17. I had no idea about fashion, magazines, models or designers. No idea.

I live by the philosophy that beauty starts from within, and I make a conscious effort to fill my body with nutrients through the food I eat.

What you want to worship above youth, I think, is beauty, and beauty is so beyond just appearances after a while. Because you can be with someone who's good-looking; if they open their mouths and they're an idiot, then they cease to be beautiful very quickly.

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

When I'm wearing makeup, I choose between doing my eyes or mouth because I don't want to look like a beauty pageant child.

I had two different kind of parents. My mother was obsessive with movie stars and cinema and Hollywood because she worked in movies. And my father was obsessed with beauty everywhere - in art, in nature, animals.

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Something in the human psyche confuses beauty with the right to be loved. The briefest glance at human folly reveals that good looks and worthiness operate independently. Yet countless socializing forces, from Aunt Clara to the latest perfume ad, reinforce beliefs like 'If I were pretty enough, I would be loved.'

I despise women wearing too much makeup. It hides their actual beauty.

I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

How goodness heightens beauty!

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.

I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt.

I completely agree that a sound sleep is the best beauty product. Sound sleep, one of the most important but underrated thing, helps to make you more beautiful. I can never understand how people work so hard that they miss out on their sleep.

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

Social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous that one has to ask what purpose they serve.

A women's greatest asset is her beauty.

Whenever I have any beauty doubts, I always look up the Internet for solutions and remedies!

It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.

Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.