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Beauty Quotes


"Beauty and the devil are the same thing."


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express."


"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness."


"The beauty of a thought is true science fiction."


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


"Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder."


"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."


"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."


"Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more."


"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."


"Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self."


"The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired."


"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."


"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."



"There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting."


"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."


"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."



"The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web."
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