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Quotes About Beauty

Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.
~ Henri Nouwen
It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand.
~ Coco Chanel
A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.
~ Duke Ellington
Christ is ever in the world of existence. He has never disappeared out of it.... Rest assured that Christ is present. The Spiritual beauty we see around us today is from the breathings of Christ.
~ Abdu'l-Bahá
Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the world or of beauty.
~ Unknown
Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.
~ Claude Debussy
When everyone in the world sees beauty, then ugly exists.
~ Laozi
O beautiful white land, olives and wild anemone and violet mingled among the shale, and purple wings of little winter-butterflies say, here Psyche, the soul, lies.
~ Hilda Doolittle
The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
~ Michel de Montaigne
I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.
~ Plautus
Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured with the beauty of words.
~ Aldous Huxley
All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most, I shot.
~ Ernst Haas
Open your mind to every form of beauty
~ Constance Spry
The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
~ Byron Katie
I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
~ Petrarch
We're constantly taking pictures of ourselves. It's a bit scary, because images are essentially dead, so we judge beauty on something that isn't alive.
~ Elle Fanning
As I walk .. as I walk .. / The universe .. is walking with me .. / Beautifully .. it walks before me .... / Beautifully .. on every side .... / As I walk .. I walk with beauty.
~ Mary Hunter Austin
Where does beauty begin? Where does it end? Where it ends is where the artist begins.
~ John Cage
A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written.
~ Morris Kline
The body expresses our very being. The striving for beauty is inborn among the Aryan.
~ Baldur von Schirach
...the feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling, which all mathematicians know
~ Henri Poincare