Beauty Quotes - Page 23

• I truly, truly believe that beauty is something that comes from within.

  Emma Watson

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Believe

  "Emma Watson: I wear too much makeup". www.today.com. April 18, 2013.

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• Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Faces, Glances, Meekness

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.83, Heron Dance Press

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• Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Adventure, Flying, Aviation

  Charles A. Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh (2003). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

  Robert Browning

  Attitude, Simple, Simply Beautiful

  'Fra Lippo Lippi' (1855) l. 217

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• People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

  Vivienne Westwood

  People, Ugly, Today

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• When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.

  Christy Turlington

  Mind, Needs, Body

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• You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, God, Christian

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

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• As I hold the flower in my hand and think of trying to describe it, I realize how poor a creature I am, how impotent are words in the presence of such perfection.

  Celia Thaxter

  Flower, Thinking, Hands

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.76, Applewood Books

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• Know that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Beautiful, Ugly, Remains

  Robinson Jeffers, James Karman, Una Jeffers (2009). “The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers: With Selected Letters of Una Jeffers”, p.65, Stanford University Press

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• It was Matisse who took the first step into the undiscovered land of the ugly.

  Gelett Burgess

  Land, Ugly, Firsts

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• Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual analysis, games and cliches, the acquisitive instinct, or lust for anything whatsoever.

  Lawren Harris

  Men, Games, Lust

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• Mud, rubbish and dirt are man's companions all his life; shouldn't they be precious to him, and isn't one doing man's service to remind him of their beauty?

  Jean Dubuffet

  Men, Dirt, Mud

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• Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Grace, Lord, Lord Bacon

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• The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.

  Herbert Spencer

  Skins, Skin Deep, Beauty Is Skin Deep

  Herbert Spencer (1858). “Essays--scientific, political and speculative”, p.424

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• For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in the gestures of the common people had beauty. Middle-class people held no appeal for me at all.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Class, People, Movement

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.43, Northwestern University Press

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• Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so seductive; but aesthetic experience itself degenerates into a kind of fetish or idol if it is held up as an end in itself, untested by the rest of life.

  Roger Kimball

  Art, Idols, Rest Of Life

  Roger Kimball (2000). “Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age”, Ivan R Dee

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• There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to the bodily frame, the stirring of the intellect wearing down the flesh, and the moral enthusiasm burning its way out to heaven, through the emaciation of the earthen vessel; and there is, in this indication of subduing the mortal by the immortal part, an ideal glory of perhaps a purer and higher range than that of the more perfect material form. We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak presence of Paul than of, the fair and ruddy countenance of David.

  John Ruskin

  Character, Thinking, Perfect

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• Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee. If thou like it, it deceives thee; if thou love it, it disturbs thee; if thou hunt after it, it destroys thee. If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory. It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fool's furnace.

  Francis Quarles

  Wise, Heart, Men

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.57

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• A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty.

  Fernando Botero

  Beautiful, Real, Sensual

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• A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen;
  She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.

  Victor Hugo

  Queens, Needs, Royalty

  Victor Hugo (2008). “Poems”, p.317, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Faces, Admire, Discouraging

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• Why should beauty be suspect?

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Should, Suspects

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• An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

  Jane Austen

  May, Handsome, Features

  Jane Austen (2016). “Persuasion”, p.30, Xist Publishing

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• For the arts epitomize, intensify and clarify the experience of beauty for us as nothing else can.

  Lawren Harris

  Art

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• What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Rugged, Sensibility, Homely

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1855). “STAR PAPERS OR EXPERIENCES OF ART AND NATURE”, p.165

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