Quotes about Beauty

A rose's beautiful scent is extracted only when it is crushed.

the spiritualizing of duty gives life to it. Without this it is only dead praying, dead hearing—and dead things are not pleasing. A dead flower has no beauty, a dead breast has no sweetness.

My interest as an artist is to illuminate the lives of black folks. I definitely am focused on films that illustrate all that we are and all our nuance and all our complicated beauty and mess, and when you're telling those stories, you gotta have black actors.

Junk is in the eyes of the beholder. Some look, but others see.

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love

It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.

I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection.

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

Genius lasts longer than beauty