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“I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.”
Charlie Chaplin
“The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.”
Albert Einstein
“When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty,
There arises the recognition of ugliness.
When they all know the good as good,
There arises the recognition of evil.”
Lao Tzu
“Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.”
Paulo Coelho
“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.”
Pablo Picasso
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
Confucius
“Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.”
Andre Gide
“Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.”
Andre Gide
“It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.”
Phyllis Diller
“Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.”
Phyllis Diller
“Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.”
Stephen Hawking
“Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.”
Aristotle
“It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.”
Euripides
“The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.”
Salvador Dali
“At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.”
Honore de Balzac
“Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.”
Honore de Balzac
“Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.”
Aldous Huxley
“It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.”
Aldous Huxley
“Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“To love beauty is to see light.”
Victor Hugo
“Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.”
Victor Hugo
“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.”
Victor Hugo
“Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.”
Victor Hugo
“The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.”
Victor Hugo
“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
Franz Kafka
“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
Franz Kafka
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“Beauty is a fragile gift.”
Ovid
“Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.”
Ovid
