Quotes About Perception

Girls with the beauty-and-brains thing going on are the most intimidating girls in the world.

The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.

Only when the mind is completely alone can it know what is beauty, and not in any other state.

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

Inner beauty is for amateurs.

But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content.

Reality, like beauty, is in relationship and there only.

Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.

Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.

That icy glass reduces your beauty - dims your fire - let me be your mirror...

Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.

In his attempt to develop the beauty he sees, the artist develops himself.

I'm not traditionally a beauty, but apparently people think I'm alright.

What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

Affect not to despise beauty: no one is freed from its dominion; But regard it not a pearl of price--it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds.

Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind.

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged.

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light

It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.

I thought that beauty alone would satisfy, but the soul is gone. I can't bear those empty, staring eyes.