Quotes About Beauty

All the sounds of the earth are like music.

Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I am beautiful because you love me?

Oh yes!...The sweet summons of God to man. That's when He calls you up to His arms. And it's the most beautiful thing, a rebirth, a new life. But, just the same I'm in no rush to find out.

The house in which the fourteen sisters of Emilio Montez O'brien lived, radiated femininity.

My work is not about 'form follows function ' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

Não é o ângulo reto que me atrai. Nem a linha reta, dura, inflexível, criada pelo homem. O que me atrai é a curva livre e sensual.

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

It is through… Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

Her hair has turned quite gold from grief.

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

And down the long and silent street,The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet,Crept like a frightened girl.

Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.

You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

Beauty is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.