Quotes About Beauty

A menudo me pregunto por qué nos gustan unas personas y no otras. Y sobre este tema tengo mi propia teoría: existe una forma armónica e ideal a la que de manera instintiva tiende nuestro cuerpo. Escogemos en los otros aquellos rasgos que podrían cumplir con ese ideal. El objetivo de la evolución es meramente estético y nada tiene que ver con ninguna adaptación. A la evolución lo que le interesa es la belleza, alcanzar la máxima perfección de cada forma

looked out of the window. Dawn was breaking, and idle snowflakes were gradually starting to fill the nothingness. They were falling slowly, weaving their way through the air and spinning on their own axis like feathers.

Ibland sätter man grimma på skönheten i det ondas intresse, då reduceras den till fägring för ögat, till båtnad för folket.

he sees immortal blackberry bushes, darkened by the sun, clinging to the rocks with their long shoots.

As I stood there, gazing at the pulpits, I could turn around at any moment to take gentle hold of the sharp, jagged line of the horizon as if it were a strand of hair. To look beyond it.

It's strange how the Night erases all colors, as if it didn't give a damn about such worldly extravagance.

her hands are hennaed in a complex design made less legible by each passing day.

And there remain blades of grass that are succulent and green, as if they have forgotten it's the end of October, and that it freezes at night.

The world has dropped its petals.

Beauty is God's wine, with which He recompenses the souls that love...

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.

The good man suffers but to gain, And every virtue springs from pain; As aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow; But crush'd or trodden to the ground, Diffuse their balmy sweets around.

To me more dear, congenial to my heart,One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain.

They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

Indeed, Constance, you amaze me. Such a girl as you want jewels! It will be time enough for jewels, my dear, twenty years hence, when your beauty begins to want repairs.

The country blooms—a garden, and a grave.

There are a hundred faults in this Thing and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties.

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

My religion is nature. That's what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

What gems of painting or statuary are in the world of art, or what flowers are in the world of nature, are gems of thought to the cultivated and thinking.