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Quotes About Perception

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
~ Laurence J. Peter
Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful.
~ Rei Kawakubo
Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.
~ Alain LeRoy Locke
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
You don't really know how beautiful a girl is, until you meet her, all her beauty is in her personality.
~ Zac Efron
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, get it out with Optrex.
~ Spike Milligan
The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.
~ Piet Mondrian
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.
~ Piet Mondrian
The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
~ Adrienne Rich
The better you look, the more you see.
~ Unknown
What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.
~ Scott Westerfeld, Uglies
I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.
~ Jude Law
I don't think photography has anything remotely to do with the brain. It has to do with eye appeal.
~ Horst P. Horst
Beauty is nothing, beauty won't stay. You don't know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it's for something else.
~ Charles Bukowski
Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Everybody has their own opinion and own ideas of what beauty is.
~ Unknown
I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.
~ Aaliyah
If you have seen nothing but the beauty of their markings and limbs, their true beauty is hidden from you.
~ Unknown
Beauty has no relation to price, rarity, or age.
~ John Cotton
For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
~ Evelyn Underhill
Nothing beautiful can be summarized.
~ Paul Valery
Creation and destruction are one, to the eyes who can see beauty.
~ Savitri Devi
That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.
~ John Green, Paper Towns