Quotes About Beauty

To live between the prospect of an unknown eternal sky and a dark, enveloping Earth must have been glorious— for how else could it give rise to such magnificent expression?

No me pareces espantoso.Es simplemente que no hay modo de medirte. Es como contemplar un Picasso y tratar de decidir si la mujer del cuardo es guapa o fea. Uno no lo sabe, pero no puede dejar de mirarla. -Me ves como una obra de arte. Eso me parece bien. -Sí, bueno... pero nunca me ha gustado Picasso.

Love turns a heart to crystal," said Mikey. "Much more valuable, but much more fragile.

She was deemed an unfit mother, in spite of the fact that she goes to the gym every day,' Hal once told me. . . .Beautiful people are often forgiven for many things--and maybe she's gotten through life that way, but I don't forgive her for anything--and I don't even know what awful things she's done other than showing a lack of parental fitness.

Indeed, nothing awful is without its beautiful side.

The hiss of waves breaking at her ankles is a gentle sigh, as if the sea itself has found lasting contentment.

Mountains are created by upheaval. I'm sure it doesn't look pretty at the time.

If the yacht's sails were wind-tattered, if its polished brass and varnished wood were scarred from a hundred successful voyages, it would have suited him, because character should always come before beauty.

Tout ce qui est horrible porte un versant magnifique

Well, at least the music was pretty.

In nature even the most hideous of creatures are attracted to one another.

You may look at a beautiful garden and marvel at nature's wonder—yet in such a place, nature is nowhere to be found. On the contrary, a garden is a product of loving cultivation and care. With great effort, it is protected from the heartier weeds that nature would use to undermine and choke its splendor.

From the city of Caracas

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.

L'orage rajeunit les fleurs

Do you come from Heaven or rise from the abyss, Beauty?

That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal: from which it follows that irregularity - that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are an essential part and characteristic of beauty.

Go then, a starveling girl With no perfume or pearls, Only your nudity O my beauty!

Her voice makes perfume when she speaks, Her breath is music faint and low.

I worship you like night's pavilion, O vase of sadness, o great silent one, And love you more since you escape from me, And since you seem, my night's sublimity, To mock me and increase the leagues that lie Between my arms and blue immensity. I move to the attack, besiege, assail, Like eager worms after a funeral. I even love, o beast implacable, The coldness which makes you more beautiful.

These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling and thinking.... Contrary to what many thoughtless people seem to believe, dandyism is not even an excessive delight in clothes and material elegance. For the perfect dandy, these things are no more than the symbol of the aristocratic superiority of his mind.

When I was young I lived a constant storm, Though now and then the brilliant suns shot through, So in my garden few red fruits were born, The rain and thunder had so much to do. - The Enemy

Le beau est toujours bizarre

L'étude du beau est un duel où l'artiste crie de frayeur avant d'être vaincu.