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Beauty Quotes


"The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist."


"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."



"For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm."


"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."


"I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within."


"The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves."


"Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better."


"What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible."


"For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled."


"Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness."


"The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory."


"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness."


"The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men."


"A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language."


"Curley's wife lay with a half-covering of yellow hay. And the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face. She was pretty and simple, and her face was sweet and young. Now her rouged cheeks and reddened lips made her seem alive and sleeping very lightly. The curls, tiny little sausages, were spread on the hay behind her head and her lips were parted."


"To find beauty, look above the boundaries of conformity."


"The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations."


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


"I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied."


"Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me."


"Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you."


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