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Quotes About Beauty

Uit het kafee gekomen, zagen we dat de Maan er weer prima bijstond Zo lief, zo rood, zo vol, maar ook zo laag: een kwestie van een trapleer of op iemands schouder staan, meer niet.
~ Gerard Reve
Een mooie avond,' zei Frits. 'Zoek jij ook graag de ellende van deze wereld? Wandel je Zondags ook graag op kerkhoven? De meeste mensen denken nergens aan.
~ Gerard Reve
Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?
~ Gerard Way
Just keep fighting. Because actually isn't that bad. I mean, we started this band thinking that the world is just extremely ugly but I think now we realize it's more beautiful than we thought.
~ Gerard Way
The world is gonna try and clean you up; what you gonna do about it? They're gonna try to make you pretty, what the fuck you gonna do about it? You're gonna say, 'I WANNA STAY UGLY.'
~ Gerard Way
Art is the highest form of hope.
~ Gerhard Richter
The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges.
~ Germaine Greer
Until woman as she is can drive this plastic spectre out of her own and her man's imagination she will continue to apologize and disguise herself, while accepting her male's pot-belly, wattles, bad breath, farting, stubble, baldness and other ugliness without complaint.
~ Germaine Greer
I got him' is nonsense in terms of love relationships, and so is 'I lost him'. If we could stop thinking in terms of capture, we would not have to fear the loosening of the captives' bonds and our failing beauty, and he would not have ulcers about being outsrtipped or belittled.
~ Germaine Greer
Woman cannot be content with health and agility: she must make exorbitant efforts to appea something that never could exist without a diligent perversion of nature. Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate? Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves.
~ Germaine Greer
If we could stop thinking in terms of capture, we would not have to fear the loosening of the captives' bonds and our failing beauty, and he would not have ulcers about being outstripped or belittled
~ Germaine Greer
Numinbah Valley
~ Germaine Greer
no matter how bad life gets, no matter how sometimes things seem to turn on you and make it seem like there's no longer any hope, don't forget that you always have THIS (Sunset) to look forward to at the end of every single day. Look at it, Jake. Right there is peace. And freedom. And there's nothing in this world that can touch it.
~ Gerry Alanguilan
Her personal vocabulary of iconic imagery reveals clues as to how she devoured life, loved, hated, and perceived beauty.
~ Gerry Souter
of Shelley's masterpiece was not vague,
~ Gerson Noel Bertram
Come. For the sun has crept down in its cave; its warm red breath has blown away.
~ Gertrud Kolmar
The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.
~ Gertrude Jekyll
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.
~ Gertrude Jekyll
What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.
~ Gertrude Jekyll
The wild Roses run up to great heights in hedge and thicket, and never look so well as when among the tangles of mixed growth of wild forest land or clambering through some old gnarled thorn-tree.
~ Gertrude Jekyll
The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.
~ Gertrude S. Wister
Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.
~ Gertrude Stein
Pigeons on the grass alas.
~ Gertrude Stein
Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.
~ Giacomo Casanova