Quotes on Beauty

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.

It's Hard to Stay Mad When There's So Much Beauty in the World

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

When you draw a nude, sketch the whole figure and nicely fit the members to it and to each other. Even though you may only finish one portion of the drawing, just make certain that all the parts hang together, so that the study will be useful to you in the future.

Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals. That will do for a place to sit. Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens.

To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

Beauty doesn't matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart.

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Just try the effect of putting beauty into your life, a little every day. You will find it magical. It will broaden and light up your outlook upon the world as the acquisition of money or fame never can.

The next time you look into the mirror, try to let go of the storyline that says you're too fat or too sallow, too ashy or too old, your eyes are too small or your nose too big; just look into the mirror and see your face. When the criticism drops away, what you will see then is just you, without judgment, and that is the first step towards transforming your experience of the world.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Venus, ancient goddess of love and beauty, is an apparently irrelevant, invented deity of the long dead. But Venus merits scrutiny. Chart her life story across 5,000 years and you chart the evolution of our conflicted relationship with sex and with the female body.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?

The lighter the skin, the more acceptable you are. The darker the skin, the more marginalised you become. I want to demonstrate that you can produce beauty in the context of a figure that has that kind of velvety blackness. It can be done.