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Beauty Quotes

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"Beauty and the devil are the same thing."
Robert Mapplethorpe
"Beauty and the devil are the same thing."
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"Order is the shape upon which beauty depends."
Pearl S. Buck
"Order is the shape upon which beauty depends."
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"The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space."
Ruth St. Denis
"The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space."
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"Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all."
Andre Breton
"Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all."
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"It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core."
Phyllis Diller
"It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core."
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"Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while."
Candice Bergen
"Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while."
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"The beauty of a face is transient, but the beauty of a loving heart is everlasting."
Debasish Mridha
"The beauty of a face is transient, but the beauty of a loving heart is everlasting."
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"Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better."
Henry Rollins
"Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better."
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"For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer."
Xenophon
"For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer."
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"My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it."
Natasha Henstridge
"My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it."
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"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express."
Francis Bacon
"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express."
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"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."
Leo Tolstoy
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."
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"Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired."
Gustave Courbet
"Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired."
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"Beauty is whatever gives joy."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Beauty is whatever gives joy."
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"Beauty is first and foremost an emotion."
Tahar Ben Jelloun
"Beauty is first and foremost an emotion."
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"There is a role and function for beauty in our time."
Tadao Ando
"There is a role and function for beauty in our time."
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"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness."
Maria Mitchell
"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness."
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"The beauty of a thought is true science fiction."
Debasish Mridha
"The beauty of a thought is true science fiction."
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"A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language."
Gaston Bachelard
"A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language."
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"Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder."
John Zimmerman
"Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder."
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"People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart."
Candice Bergen
"People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart."
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"Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior."
Candice Bergen
"Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior."
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"The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers."
Roy Ayers
"The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers."
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"All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim."
Christopher Morley
"All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim."
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"That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates."
Donald Trump
"That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates."
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"Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall."
Ani DiFranco
"Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall."
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"I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be."
Bob Dylan
"I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be."
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"Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it."
Liv Tyler
"Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it."
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"So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women."
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"Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more."
Eva Herzigova
"Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more."
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"Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty."
Max Roach
"Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty."
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"Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty."
Margot Asquith
"Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty."
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"For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places."
David Rittenhouse
"For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places."
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"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."
John Muir
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."
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"We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life."
David Amram
"We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life."
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"Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self."
Priscilla Presley
"Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self."
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"There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived."
Amy Grant
"There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived."
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"The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired."
Gustave Courbet
"The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired."
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"You are the most magnificent flower. Your beauty is immeasurable and incredible. The universe created you with all of her love and power to see herself in you."
Debasish Mridha
"You are the most magnificent flower. Your beauty is immeasurable and incredible. The universe created you with all of her love and power to see herself in you."
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"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."
Michelangelo
"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."
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"There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting."
John Kenneth Galbraith
"There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting."
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"Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant."
Douglas Horton
"Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant."
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"Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense."
Vernon Howard
"Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense."
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"Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true."
Delta Burke
"Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true."
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"What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects."
Walter Pater
"What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects."
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"And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food."
Joan Collins
"And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food."
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"Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth."
Marston Morse
"Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth."
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"Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man."
Hans Urs von Balthasar
"Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man."
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"The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web."
Edwin Way Teale
"The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web."
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"Her beauty didn't do her any good and she couldn't use it in any positive way or manipulative way. I just hope that people will look and see and believe in that hope of love, that hope of freedom, even if it was just for a limited time."
Diane Kruger
"Her beauty didn't do her any good and she couldn't use it in any positive way or manipulative way. I just hope that people will look and see and believe in that hope of love, that hope of freedom, even if it was just for a limited time."
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