Quotes on Beauty

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

If tomorrow, women woke up and decided they really liked their bodies, just think how many industries would go out of business.

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

I, like many women, buy into patriarchal standards of beauty every day. I very rarely leave the house without make-up. I dye my hair. I wear clothes that I choose carefully for how they make me look to the outside world.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

The landscape painter must walk in the fields with a humble mind. No arrogant man was ever permitted to see Nature in all her beauty.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.

Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him.

Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.

Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and ugly days! He is one of the few people left in this distressful world to carry on the tradition of elegance and charm. A useless member of society, considered in terms of economics, he must not be denied his rightful place. He deserves to share it, however humbly, with the painter and poet.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.