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Quotes About Beauty

The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us.
~ Caspar David Friedrich
Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.
~ Honore de Balzac
Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
~ Grace Jones
The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil's whole structure away.
~ C.S. Lewis
Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.
~ Honore de Balzac
I don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.
~ Kate Winslet
I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy. At home, do I have the full hair and makeup? No. But I might have the nice dress on.
~ Jennifer Lopez
Things have to be beautifully made, even if they are full of fun, fantasy and futility
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Personally I kept my feelings out of it and created a fantasy. That's the process of going through this world being beautiful.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Gardens are made of darkness and light entwined.
~ F.T. McKinstry, Crowharrow
... where I walked, the frost shaped itself to my will, dancing in the air like music over water.
~ Unknown
Beauty and power was commonplace to the dragons as mud and manure to a stable boy.
~ Susan Scott, Dragons Will Fall
She comes closer to me. She is beautiful, in the way lightning striking across a storm-swept sky is beautiful: dangerous and distant.
~ Unknown
I looked at Vicki. My beautiful Vicki. My dream. My love. My life.
~ Unknown
So tall and lithe in his suede and leather outfit. So utterly gorgeous it almost ached to look at him.
~ Unknown
There is absolutely nothing monstrous about being a vampire. In fact, it's quite beautiful.
~ Rae Hachton, Evermore
there are people all over the world who carry the mermaid inside them, that otherworldly beauty and longing and desire that made her reach for heaven when she lived in the darkness of the sea.
~ Unknown
Seductive pull of the forest, an open canvas for trouble.
~ Unknown
How could none of them comprehend the beauty of a human soul, shining in heaven for eternity? Where it would be whole again, as they all had been once in times past?
~ Unknown
God the Father's a deep root; the Son's the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance
~ Tertullian
It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.
~ Dawn French