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Quotes About Beauty

The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.
~ Auguste Rodin
My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums.
~ Mary Oliver
Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.
~ Diego Rivera
Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.
~ Vidal Sassoon
I never thought I was the most beautiful model out there or the most sexy woman, but I was a hard worker
~ Carol Alt
Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.
~ Joni Mitchell
In the end when you accept yourself for who you are and you work with what you've got, you couldn't be more beautiful because you're confident and everyone notices.
~ Lily Collins
The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful.
~ Doug Henning
Being an ugly woman is like being a man. You're gonna have to work. Yep.
~ Daniel Tosh
Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.
~ Thorstein Veblen
Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist and people who appreciate truly beautiful and original creations in pottery are not frightened by innocent tomfoolery!
~ Clarice Cliff
All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair The bees are stirring, birds are on the wing, And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of spring.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
~ William Blake
The image my work invokes is the image of good - not evil; the image of order - not chaos; the image of life - not death. And that is all the content of my constructions amounts to.
~ Naum Gabo
The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
I always take working out seriously, but before a shoot I do extra sit ups and squats. I also eat more vegetables and drink a ton of water, because it really helps my skin glow.
~ Lily Aldridge
Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.
~ Martin Parr
No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.
~ Bernard Berenson
What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it's pastoral, or whether somebody will see a sunset in it. What concerns me is - did I make a beautiful picture?
~ Helen Frankenthaler
My work shows the beauty in so many different kinds of people because I never photograph anyone who I don't think is beautiful. I never take an intentionally mean picture.
~ Nan Goldin
Three things are needed for success in painting and sculpture: to see beauty when young and accustom oneself to it, to work hard, and to obtain good advice.
~ Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Each one of us is God's special work of art. Through us, He teaches and inspires, delights and encourages, informs and uplifts all those who view our lives.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
The Latina spirit translates to every aspect of our lives, from beauty to work to family. We're loving, we're loud, and we're beautiful in our essence.
~ Eva Longoria
But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.
~ Roy DeCarava