Quotes on Beauty

O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden painter from the desire to make your nude figures reveal all.

I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god.

One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to see the value and the beauty in ordinary things, to come alive to the splendour that is all around us.

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

I believe that all women are pretty without makeup- but with the right makeup can be pretty powerful.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him. All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism.

I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

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

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.

I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.

There is in true Beauty, as in Courage, somewhat which narrow Souls cannot dare to admire.

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.