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Beauty Quotes


"Sculpture is the art of the intelligence."


"I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn."


"Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say - no detail spared in the quest for perfection."


"No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society."


"A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know."



"I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation."


"Then Christ shall be clothed with all the beauty of the elect as if with a long tunic variously adorned, in which He shall shine as if covered with all manner of precious stones."



"I'm 40 and I just got my first beauty campaign with Clairol Nice and Easy."


"The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer."


"Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture."


"Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it."


"Her collarbones like wings that spread from the base of her throat to the ends of her shoulders. A bird held down by skin."



"Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that."


"The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise."


"Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived."


"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."


"So many things become beautiful when you really look."


"They ran to the museums for paintings. I ran to the roof for sunsets."


"I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains."


"To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business-not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into rhetoric and plot."


"It's funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places."


"In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it."


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



"Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break."


"Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving."


"We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children."


"Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former."
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