Quotes About Beauty

Es la imagen más pura de la mujer amada: la que aún no conocemos totalmente, la que se revelará, la que tiene en sí el único milagro viviente que existe en la tierra.

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

Introducing the idea of beauty as a salve and of aesthetics making something difficult accessible.

Ce n'était pas qu'elle ne fût contente de plaire, mais ce contentement n'était pas suffisant pour qu'elle se donnât beaucoup de peine en vue de l'obtenir; quand elle s'était passé un doigt mouillé sur les sourcils, et la langue sur les lèvres, elle avait beaucoup fait.

las manos son aún más bellas cuando no imitan nada.

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness.

I had never believed either in God, or in the Devil, or in a King, or in the Pope (as for the Revolution, so far I had no knowledge of it), but I had always been taught to recognize Grace and Beauty, and they alone, in my opinion, justified the curtseys, the fervor in our souls, the fullness of our hearts. — Max-Ulrich

What we will criticize 'modern' eroticism for is its lack of genuine sensuality, a sensuality which implies beauty or charm, passion or modesty, power over the object of desire, and fulfilment.

All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements.

The only valid thing in art is the one thing that cannot be explained, to explain away the mystery of a great painting would do irreplaceable harm, for whenever you explain or define something you substitute the explanation or the definition for the

There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look.

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure. It is through it that I best succeed in expressing the almost religious feeling I have towards life.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Siempre hay flores para aquellos que desean verlas.

Il y a toujours des fleurs pour ceux qui veulent les voir.

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!

The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.

Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul each feeling has, as it were, its flowering instant, its one and only moment of expansive grace and radiant kingship.

We see the clouds of summer go and come, And thirsty verdure praying them to give: We cry, "O Nature, tell us why we live!" She smiles with beauty, but her lips are dumb.

The years like birds of passage go To that eternal clime, the past; And May's immortal lot is cast Upon their flight o'er all below, Like sunlight on a field of snow, Or some sweet rose-leaf on the blast.

O May! robed in your gown of flowers, Nun-like, gaze from your balmy cell, Under your crown of asphodel, And sentinel all the summer hours; Rising among your daisy bowers, Like Venus from her cradled shell!