Beauty Quotes (669)
Quotes and citations about beauty
But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.
By : Lascelles Abercrombie
Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.
By : James Randolph Adams
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
By : Joseph Addison
I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.
By : Clay Aiken
I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion.
By : Isaac Albeniz
Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
By : Leon Battista Alberti
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
By : Louisa May Alcott
I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.
By : Alexander Alekhine
Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!
By : Alexander Alekhine
We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life.
By : David Amram
People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
By : Tadao Ando
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
By : Maya Angelou
The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.
By : Minna Antrim
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
By : Hannah Arendt
When you put the interest of a kid on money instead of heart then you're destroying the beauty of our lives and our thought process, which should be about how much responsibilities you carry as an athlete and a citizen.
By : Alexis Arguello
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
By : Margot Asquith
Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were.
By : Colleen Atwood
Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul.
By : Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.
By : Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.
By : Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.
By : Kevyn Aucoin
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
By : Saint Augustine
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
By : Marcus Aurelius
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
By : Jane Austen
The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.
By : Roy Ayers
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
By : Gaston Bachelard