Quotes About Beauty

White spume flew its ghost against the glass.

There was almost a fairy quality to this place, he thought. The far look and the clear air and the feeling of detachment that touched almost on greatness of the spirit. As if this were a special place, one of those special places that each man must seek out for himself, and count himself as lucky if he ever found it, for there were those who sought and never found it. And worst of all, there were even those who never hunted for it.

Rainbows are reflections of raindrops during daytime. Stars are reflections of the beauty of nature during night-time.

Through the years, people of the world (young and old) build castles in the sands. Grains of different styles, shapes and sizes representing a common notion... beauty and harmony.

Don't be afraid of poetry.

The sun, having set not too long ago, left a purplish stain on the sky.

To heal mine aching moods, Give me God's virgin woods.

The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course.

The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course.

You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.

Did I say that she was beautiful? I was wrong. Beauty is too tame a notion; it evokes only faces in magazines. A lovely eloquence, a calming symmetry; none of that describes this woman's face. So perhaps I should assume I cannot do it justice with words. Suffice it to say that it would break your heart to see her; and it would mend what was broken in the same moment; and you would be twice what you'd been before.

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.

All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.

That amazing thing doesn't need my poem, but my poem still needs it, the way every poem still needs all the world.

Of a young actress: "She is pretty, and tactfully concerned that the optical pleasure she provides shall not be disturbed by technical requirements any more than necessary.

The eternal, not the modern, is what I love: the modern will be antiquated and grotesque in ten years, when the fashion passes. —MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO

There's one good thing about snow, it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor's.

Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!

You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.

A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart.