Quotes About Beauty

It's a kind of heresy to say so, but I think our race has made forms more beautiful than what was here before us. Sometimes god's handiwork is crude. There is no more ugly thing than a lobster. There's not much pretty about a caribou. It has an ungainly walk and its touchhole voids droppings when it strains in harness. Was there a straight line on earth before we drew one?

What I found in a city—when I finally saw a real one—was disquieting. Nothing matched. It was a weird assemblage of things, but there was beauty in the oddness of it, and the thought that it was all man's doing. But

my friends would say to me, You, insecure, when you're that beautiful? I would reply, The one has nothing to do with the other.

In every life there's a full moon. As long as you can recognize it, at least, you can enjoy it and feel crystal clear and complete.

La fidelidad: ¿indispensable o necesaria? Lo segundo es más hermoso, implica opción, no tiene la fealdad de la norma. Entre lo indispensable y lo necesario corre un chorro de agua prístina que no solo refresca, sino que arremete contra la rigidez, la ablanda, la amolda y la baña de una superficie que al endurecerse la convierte en confitura y no en piedra.

Después de todo Blanca, ¿no es ése el sentido del amor: la transformación? Míranos a Sofía, a ti y a mí. Lo bello de nuestra amistad es cuánto hemos transformado una en la otra.

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

La giornata era bellissima, smaltata e netta. Niente pareva lasciato al caso: punte e spigoli, tetti e antenne, grondaie e comignoli, apici d'abete e cime imbiancate. Come in una tavola fiamminga l'acuto sovrastava qualunque possibile rotondità. E pareva consigliasse di mirare in alto verso il turchese compatto del cielo, senza un sole che potesse sbiadirlo, né un volo d'uccello che potesse macchiarlo.

Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.

Perfection is too hard a burden to impose on nature.

Creation, in all its splendor and misery, in all the beauty and ugliness of its myriad forms, is how God manifests His presence in time. Creation is God in time.

Being attractive matters everywhere—getting jobs, getting laid, and yes, getting acquitted by a jury of your peers. No one can resist a pretty face. As long as it's not too pretty. Back

Cuando buscas la belleza en el universo, comienzas también a ver tu propia belleza.

Las rosas son rojas, La violetas azul turquesa, Ven pronto a casa, Lo conseguiremos, princesa.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

No form of Nature is inferior to Art for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.

The scientist does not study Nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If Nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if Nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.' One

Why do we as humans create art? Why is Richter's work regarded as art while a book of Dulux colour samples is not?

Every step stranger. The bones of buildings had torn through their stone skin and lay exposed. Collapsed walls buried the cobblestones. Shattered glass dusted the scene with razor-edged glitter. The dust clouds were lit brighter by a dozen fires burning out of sight.

Yet every writer worth a good-god damn knows this too, for it is graven into each of us: no one cares for beauty. Not in fiction. Not on its own, not pure, untroubled beauty; not in fiction. [...] For here is the only real difference between the life of reality and the life of fiction. Fiction only works when the beauty is tainted by pain. For fiction is not about life; it's about the troubles of life.

I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

I was tall and biracial and sexy. But then there was Winnie. Her blond hair fell straight like a pane of glass. This was who my Jewish babysitter wanted?