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Beauty Quotes


"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 do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after."



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


"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."


"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."


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


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


"There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it."


"We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it."


"I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation."


"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."


"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."


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


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


"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."


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


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


"Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see."
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