Quotes on Beauty

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

When a man's home is born out of his heart and developed through his labor and perfected through his sense of beauty, it is the very cornerstone of life.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

The whole point about beauty is its imperfection.

We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.

I'm in the public eye, so I don't care who knows what I get done. If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I get it sucked, tucked, or plucked.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Life is pretty simple: _x000D_ You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. _x000D_ You do more of what works.

But the longer and further I ran, the more I realized that what I was often chasing was a state of mind- a place where worries that seemed monumental melted away, where the beauty and timelessness of the universe, of the present moment, came into sharp focus.

The fleeting hour of life of those who love the hills is quickly spent, but the hills are eternal. Always there will be the lonely ridge, the dancing beck, the silent forest; always there will be the exhilaration of the summits. These are for the seeking, and those who seek and find while there is still time will be blessed both in mind and body.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

Truth, in the broadest sense, means being attuned with the real. To be authentically in touch with the true, and the good and the beautiful. Yes?

'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.