Quotes About Beauty

Growing up, and the way that the media portrays, you're supposed to look a certain way. Muscles aren't beautiful. Muscles aren't feminine.

In the dance world, you have to have a certain muscular shape; you have to have long limbs and willowy shoulders. It's hard to have breasts.

I think of many people and no one as a muse. I love the way Sofia looks always, and I love the way Kim looks always. Fashion may be part of their world, but it's not their whole life. It's not everything.

I'd really like having a couple days of being a rock star, although I'd rather be a backup - like maybe the drummer for Muse... It would also be fun to be gorgeous, like be Charlize Theron, just for a couple of days.

To be honest with you, my mom never really wore makeup when I was growing up. She wasn't really my makeup muse. It was my grandma. The biggest thing that she taught me is that it doesn't matter how your makeup comes out, it's really just how you wear it. If you carry it like you killed your makeup, then that's all that matters.

My mother and grandmother... they were my first muses. The way they dressed and carried themselves was an education in elegance. They defined the word.

Cutting out images you like from art books and framing them is a great way of getting beautiful works on your wall. You can also frame magazine images or pick up inexpensive art at museum gift shops.

The V&A is an amazing museum, and the collections have always been a great inspiration to me.

I love, love, love, love, love, love Naeem Khan. Every dress he makes looks like it belongs in a museum. You put it on, and you feel like royalty.

When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.

When I'm in New York, my favorite place on the planet is the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

I love going to museums, especially the Met, because there's always room for discovery, or the Neue Galerie. It's a great jewel box.

I love going to museums.

I go to museums all the time.

I'm more inclined towards old churches and dusty museums.

All music is beautiful.

Great music is great music. It doesn't matter what genre it belongs.

Great music is in the ear of the beholder.

If it's good music, it's good music.

I remember seeing the first Astaire-Rogers musical on television, and I couldn't believe how beautiful it was. It dawned on me that you don't have to wear a cowboy hat to be a man.

I have found my heaven in musicals. When I watch a musical, it makes me believe life is still beautiful.

There is nothing more beautiful for a musician to listen and see harmony.

I had beautiful wavy hair and a waxed mustache.

Beauty pageants in general are foreign and noxious to me: I can barely muster the energy to put on lip gloss and mascara.