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Quotes About Beauty

The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.
~ John Ruskin
I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
~ Nawal El Saadawi
As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.
~ John Dewey
The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.
~ Ambrose Philips
Beauty, you're under arrest. I have a camera, and I'm not afraid to use it.
~ Julia Margaret Cameron
What is really beautiful must always be true.
~ Stendhal
For a woman to be considered a celebrated beauty is not exactly a bad thing. I think we have to say that in all reality.
~ Raquel Welch
Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.
~ Eli Broad
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
~ William Hazlitt
I think there can always be beauty in struggle.
~ Patricia Arquette
Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner
Look, really look, at how beautiful this day is. Let go of the worries and anxieties and judgments, and see the beauty.
~ Ralph Marston
Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.
~ Van Cliburn
Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard.
~ Naomi Wolf
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
~ Pablo Picasso
Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.
~ Peter Bogdanovich
A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
~ Helen Rowland
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
~ Sallust
Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
~ Ovid
While she is lovely, we need to remember that her face is not what distinguishes her. Her beauty is a reflection of the virtue and talent she keeps inside.
~ Lisa See
Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?
~ Jean Toomer