Beauty in Words: Top Quotes on Aesthetics and Beauty - Page 41

Dive into our selection of beauty quotes that celebrate the essence of beauty in life, nature, and the human spirit. Page 41 provides more beauty quotes.

Image of Tyra Banks
I am totally against plastic surgery. A lot of people think I have breast implants because I have the biggest boobs in the business.
- Tyra Banks
Collection: Beauty
Image of Paul Klee
The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.
- Paul Klee
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Image of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Beautiful people do not just happen
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Image of Dean Koontz
...what makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection. BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON Chapter 27 Page 214
- Dean Koontz
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Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Image of Joseph Wood Krutch
Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face with any one of the elaborate flowers which man's cultivation has had nothing to do with, it does not seem fantastic to me. We put survival first. But when we have a margin of safety left over, we expend it in the search for the beautiful. Who can say that Nature does not do the same?
- Joseph Wood Krutch
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Image of Amiri Baraka
Back home the black women are all beautiful
- Amiri Baraka
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Image of R. D. Laing
In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie.
- R. D. Laing
Collection: Beauty
Image of Henry Adams
The sensation of seeing extremely fine women, with superb forms, perfectly unconscious of undress, and yet evidently aware of their beauty and dignity, is worth a week's seasickness to experience... [to me] the effect [of a Siva dance] was that of a dozen Rembrandts intensified into the most glowing beauty of life and motion.
- Henry Adams
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Image of Charles Lamb
To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.
- Charles Lamb
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Image of Walter Savage Landor
God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.
- Walter Savage Landor
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Image of Rudyard Kipling
Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.
- Rudyard Kipling
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Image of Karl Lagerfeld
Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time.
- Karl Lagerfeld
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Image of Walter Savage Landor
Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace; and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.
- Walter Savage Landor
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Image of Honore de Balzac
Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.
- Honore de Balzac
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Image of Alphonse de Lamartine
Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
- Alphonse de Lamartine
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Image of Timothy Leary
After you turn on, don't spend the rest of your life contemplating the inner wonders. Begin immediately expressing your revelation in acts of beauty.
- Timothy Leary
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Image of R. D. Laing
Beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.
- R. D. Laing
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Image of Eliphas Levi
Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity; beautiful Helen of Troy has become a toothless skull, then a handful of dust, then nothing.
- Eliphas Levi
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Image of Eliphas Levi
Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflectios of the eternal.
- Eliphas Levi
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Image of W. Somerset Maugham
The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
- W. Somerset Maugham
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Image of Herman Melville
The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible.
- Herman Melville
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Image of George R. R. Martin
We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth.
- George R. R. Martin
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Image of George MacDonald
I want to help you grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you first.
- George MacDonald
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Image of W. Somerset Maugham
We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.
- W. Somerset Maugham
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Image of Mignon McLaughlin
Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.
- Mignon McLaughlin
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Image of Herman Melville
The names of all fine authors are fictitious ones, far more so than that of Junius,--simply standing, as they do, for the mystical, ever-eluding Spirit of all Beauty, which ubiquitously possesses men of genius.
- Herman Melville
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Image of Agnes Martin
I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's a response in our minds to perfection. It's too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
- Agnes Martin
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Image of Agnes Martin
What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.
- Agnes Martin
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Image of Herman Melville
beauty is like piety--you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed.
- Herman Melville
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Image of Archibald MacLeish
The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty.
- Archibald MacLeish
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Image of Drew Barrymore
I swear to god; happiness is the best makeup.
- Drew Barrymore
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Image of Henri Matisse
The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.
- Henri Matisse
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Image of W. Somerset Maugham
Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.
- W. Somerset Maugham
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Image of George MacDonald
Beauty and sadness always go together.
- George MacDonald
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Image of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Image of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Image of Herman Melville
When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean’s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.
- Herman Melville
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Image of Bryant H. McGill
You will be a beautiful person, as long as you see the beauty in others.
- Bryant H. McGill
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Image of Sarah McLachlan
I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only let yourself believe.
- Sarah McLachlan
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Image of Yann Martel
Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
- Yann Martel
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Image of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Image of Herman Melville
A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women.
- Herman Melville
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Image of Rollo May
Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
- Rollo May
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Image of Henri Matisse
There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look.
- Henri Matisse
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Image of Jack London
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
- Jack London
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Image of Pedro Calderon de la Barca
The dower of great beauty has always been misfortune, since happiness and beauty do not agree together.
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Image of George Meredith
That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!
- George Meredith
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Image of Doc Childre
As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.
- Doc Childre
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