It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
Beauty's attractive, and we dont want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones.
Even beauties can be unattractive. If you catch a beauty in the wrong light at the right time, forget it. I believe in low lights and trick mirrors. I believe in plastic surgery.
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it.
I hadn't read Charlotte's Web in years. I was overdue. Overdue for so many things that didn't involve guns or killing people.
There is no such thing as beauty, especially in the human face. So many women that I'm told are beautiful...hell it's like looking at a soup bowl
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty
Beauty in things lies in the mind which contemplates them.
Beauty, of whatever kind, invariably excites the human soul to tears.
To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.
I feel like a defective model, like I came off the assembly line flat-out fucked and my parents should have taken me back for repairs before the warranty ran out. But that was so long ago.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
The best and most beautiful thing in life cannot be seen, not touched, but are felt in the heart.
There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look.
Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty-a sunken beauty.
Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror,
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.
Mute icons are the only kind of beauty we find acceptable today.
The critic is he who can translate into a new manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.
Fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it ever six months
In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting--a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
[...] beauty, which, in relation to actions, as we have seen, comes unsought, and comes because it is unsought [...]
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.
Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being.
The fruition of beauty is no chance of hit or miss... it is inevitable as life.
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
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Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. MUSIC IS BEST.
Truth and love are my law and worship; Form and conscience my manifestation and guide; Nature and peace are my shelter and companion; Order is my attitude; Beauty and perfection are my attack.
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities
Beauty is only a light switch away
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
What we do best is provide an arena where artistic meanings aren't fixed or absolute; where exhibitions, performances and individual works of art encourage reaction, dialogue and debate rather than educate from on high; where the nature of any given work of art isn't arbitrarily ripped away from its context and isolated from the lives and concerns of its audience. Like Sleeping Beauty, the idea of the museum as a social space, a space of public involvement, enjoyment and exchange, may be awakening from its centurylong nap, kissed by adventurous and controversial art that -- ouch! -- forgot to shave.
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in this world for ugly mathematics.
