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Quotes About Beauty

I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now.
~ Herb Alpert
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility
~ e. e. cummings
Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or chilling a single earnest sentiment.
~ Henry Theodore Tuckerman
A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna
~ Rumer Godden
Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.
~ John Ruskin
To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The will is free; Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful; The seeds of godlike power are in us still; Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will!
~ Matthew Arnold
The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.
~ Charles Dickens
To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.
~ George Henry Lewes
When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I didn't grow up around wild horses, no. But I've appreciated their beauty and their power ever since I can remember.
~ Ricky Schroder
There is no more dramatic accessory than a perfect lip. It is the focus of the face and it has the power to define a woman's whole look.
~ Tom Ford
A drainless shower Of light is poesy: 'tis the supreme of power; 'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm.
~ John Keats
Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.
~ John Ruskin
The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty.
~ John Ruskin
I don't really understand the natural world, I admire it and am a little bit afraid of its power.
~ Julia Kent
It gave her a feeling of her own power, to make something practical and beautiful just by using her own skill and creativity. It inspired her.
~ Kate Jacobs
Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.
~ Kristin Hannah
By her shining and her power he knew her.
~ Mary Renault
Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?
~ Mason Cooley
The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
~ Matthew Arnold
The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.
~ Matthew Arnold
Mountains represent the power of nature; plains, the love of nature!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it.
~ Natasha Henstridge