Quotes About Beauty

I applaud the needlessly beautiful in all things.

Haven't you sometimes seen a cloud that looked like a centaur?Or a leopard perhaps? Or a wolf? Or a bull?

The most beautiful colors, laid on confusedly, will not give as much pleasure as the chalk outline of a portrait.

Were part of the human race to be arrayed in that splendor of beauty which beams from the statues of gods, universal consent would acknowledge the rest of mankind naturally formed to be their slaves.

Objects which in themselves we view with pain, we delight to contemplate when reproduced with minute fidelity: such as the forms of the most ignoble animals and of dead bodies.

The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

I don't have to do a lot to my eyebrows. My mom always told me not to pluck them, which is great advice.

Guaranteed to remove wrinkles.

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

Die Welt der Kunst und Fantasie ist die einzig wahre. The rest is a nightmare!

We lived a decent and beautiful life," the old man said. "Maybe it's our innocence that irritates those who hate us so much and makes them kill us and burn us and hang us. It was a magnificent life because we lived in peace with ourselves. But we were always in the minority.

But the exponents of the theory "art for art's sake" maintain that any reference to actualities beyond the work of art must irretrievably destroy its aesthetic illusion. That may be correct, and yet this aesthetic illusion is not all, to produce it is not the exclusive or the most important aim of the artistic endeavor.

Tradition is here nothing but a bulwark against the all too violently approaching storms of unfamiliar, an element which is felt to be a principle of life but also of destruction. It is impossible to understand mannerism if one does not grasp the fact that its imitation of classical models is an escape from the threatening chaos, and that the subjective over-straining of its forms is the expression of the fear that form might fail the struggle with life and art fade into soul-less beauty.

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

Arnold Weinstein

Het vel van de sardines is zo mooi, het is mooier dan het vel van de mens, maar hij moet toegeven dat hij nog nooit heeft gezien hoe menselijk vel eruitziet als je het bakt in een pan.

Het effect van de schoonheid was geen genot, geen begeestering, geen verzoening met het leven, maar pijn. Kramp.

Kijk,' zegt hij, 'kijk hoe mooi het hier is. Nergens een mens te bespeuren. Alleen maar zand. Dat is mooi. Een wereld zonder mensen, dat is schoonheid. Duisternis is de mens, niets dan dat, het epicentrum van duisternis, en het enige licht dat van hem komt, is het licht van het beest.

Nadat de afwas is gedaan, haalt ze een bosje rozen uit haar boodschappentas. Ze snijdt de rozen af en spoelt de vaas om. Het is geen antidepressivum, een bosje rozen, maar het is iets. Het begin van een beetje kleur in zijn leven brengen.

Come ti vidi M'innamorai, E tu sorridi Perché lo sai.

Fake breasts: Women always say, "You know they're not real, don't you? She bought them." Do you know I don't care if they're real? I want to buy some, too. For the house, put them in different rooms. And on the dashboard of the car, for when I'm driving.

There's nothing more interesting than painting women, it's the greatest subject that can be.

The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book ' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.