Quotes About Standards

The media create this wonderful illusion-but the amount of airbrushing that goes into those beauty magazines-the hours of hair and makeup! It's impossible to live up to, because it's not real.

I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'

For a woman to be considered a celebrated beauty is not exactly a bad thing. I think we have to say that in all reality.

Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly.

Beauty is a social necessity.

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

We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.

I'm not going to conform, and hurt myself, and do something crazy to be a size 2.

It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.

There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.

I refuse to believe that the processed beauty that I see around me is what I have to be.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time.

Why should beauty be suspect?

I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.

Inner beauty is for amateurs.

Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.

What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.

He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.

I don't believe in one ideal beauty.

Girls throw away so much energy in this search for beauty and sexiness.

And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you?

To be beautiful you had to be willowy and tall. When you were as short as Clary was, just over five feet, you were cute. Not pretty or beautiful, but cute.

But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.