The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
~By Margaret Bourke-White ~
Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.
~By Edwin Way Teale ~
Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.
~By Marston Morse ~
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
~By Paul Getty ~
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.
~By Conor Oberst ~
What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.
~By Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach ~
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
~By John Keats ~
I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.
~By Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
~By Jean Rostand ~
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.
~By John Ruskin ~
Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that.
~By Cindy Margolis ~
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
~By Gustave Courbet ~
Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
~By Wilhelm von Humboldt ~
My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.
~By Mary Chapin Carpenter ~
Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.
~By Kevyn Aucoin ~
Beauty and the devil are the same thing.
~By Robert Mapplethorpe ~
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.
~By Ella R. Bloor ~
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
~By Camille Paglia ~
If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.
~By Peter York ~
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
~By Goldwin Smith ~
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
~By Jean-Luc Godard ~
A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.
~By Rudolf Otto ~
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
~By Langston Hughes ~
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
~By Bernard Berenson ~
Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.
~By Lew Wallace ~
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
~By Samuel Butler ~
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
~By Jean Genet ~
I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?
~By James Thomson ~
When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place.
~By Yusef Lateef ~
Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.
~By John Cheever ~
The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.
~By Vince Gill ~
Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.
~By Stephen Hawking ~
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
~By John Ray ~
The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
~By Katherine Anne Porter ~
In all my career, in my ups and downs, I've never had a beauty campaign. This was meaningful that at almost 41 years old, I could be getting my first beauty campaign. It made me feel really great.
~By Teri Hatcher ~
We didn't have a beauty shop as I grew up.
~By Jenifer Lewis ~
Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing; and so, it seems, is perfect disease.
~By Peter Latham ~
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your own soul's doing.
~By Marie Carmichael Stopes ~
Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.
~By L. Wolfe Gilbert ~
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.
~By Joan Rivers ~
I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.
~By Wallace Stevens ~
There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.
~By Gertrude Jekyll ~
Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.
~By John Philip Sousa ~
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
~By Sallust ~
What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!
~By Alexander Herzen ~
Beauty is the lover's gift.
~By William Congreve ~
I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.
~By Theodore Bikel ~
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
~By Maria Montessori ~
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
To love beauty is to see light.
~By Victor Hugo ~
I had a lot of resentment for a while toward Kim Novak. But I don't mind her anymore. She's okay. We've become friends. I even asked her before this trip for some beauty tips.
~By Kim Novak ~
Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.
~By Pope Paul VI ~
There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.
~By Anna Katharine Green ~
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
~By Robert Browning ~
Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
~By Dodie Smith ~
The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
~By Joseph Wood Krutch ~
First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.
~By Gustav Stickley ~
Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.
~By David Hume ~
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
~By Ouida ~
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
~By Dame Edith Evans ~
We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.
~By Junichiro Tanizaki ~
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.
~By Audrey Hepburn ~
Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.
~By Naomi Wolf ~
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
~By Ashley Smith ~
My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it.
~By Natasha Henstridge ~
If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.
~By Matthew Fox ~
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
~By Gian Carlo Menotti ~
Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
~By Andre Gide ~
If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.
~By Michelangelo ~
I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.
~By Diane Wakoski ~
People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.
~By Judith Jamison ~
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
~By Walter Hagen ~
Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.
~By Matthew Fox ~
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
~By Joseph Addison ~
Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.
~By Leni Riefenstahl ~
I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.
~By Clay Aiken ~
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.
~By Joan Crawford ~
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
~By Benjamin Britten ~
Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were.
~By Colleen Atwood ~
But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the Heavens were seen in most attractive beauty and brilliancy.
~By James Nasmyth ~
Goodness is beauty in the best estate.
~By Christopher Marlowe ~
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
~By Northrop Frye ~
The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.
~By Charlotte Smith ~
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
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