Quotes About Beauty

Beauty is too easy. Often in my work, I take beautiful objects and do extreme things to them so that they are overlaid with something a bit more sinister and violent.

I use M.A.C. Brow Gel to bring out my eyebrows, then I curl my eyelashes every morning and apply M.A.C. Sheen Supreme Lipstick in Venomous Violet with my fingers - I use it as a lip balm multiple times throughout the day because I hate having bare lips.

A mourning dove's beauty is an understated one: the colors of its feathers ranging through various shades of gray and drab violet, often with a striking splash of turquoise around the eyes.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.

When you fall in love, you genuinely hear violin being played in the background. You genuinely feel that clouds are bursting and you look at every small thing as really beautiful.

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. If everyday experience hasn't convinced you of this, there's research that will.

We live in a world that does not recognize virtually anyone outside of the white male or the beautiful white woman who has to be an object of desire and affection.

I've always loved the language of flowers. I discovered Kate Greenaway's 'Language of Flowers' in a used bookstore when I was 16 and couldn't believe it was such a well-kept secret. How could something so beautiful and romantic be virtually unknown?

People assume I must have this fantastic body that I'm dying to show off but the truth is I have body issues - just like virtually everybody else.

In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.

The beauty of the horror genre is that you can smuggle in these harder stories, and the genre comes with certain demands, but mostly you need to find the catharsis in whatever story you're telling. What may be seen as a deterrent for audiences in one genre suddenly becomes a virtue in another genre.

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

Every time we make a new invention, we think we're going to save the world, but eventually, we understand that the real virtues of that new invention have mostly to do with commerce. Then we feel a huge emptiness, and we want to fill it with beauty.

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.

I don't think I'm an artist or that I'm doing anything superintellectual. What's important to me is to get a visceral reaction from people, for them to want that coat because they think it's beautiful.

My visibility may have gotten Hollywood to redefine what's attractive.

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.

Of all creatures in this visible world, light is the most glorious; of all light, the light of the sun without compare excels the rest.