Famous Quotes
- We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.
- Rem Koolhaas on Beauty
- We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.
- We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming.
- Howard Carter on Beauty
- We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.
- Charlie Haden on Beauty
- Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
- Gene Tierney on Beauty
- Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.
- Well I've written four beauty books as well.
- Joan Collins on Beauty
- Well, I've never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se.
- Cate Blanchett on Beauty
- What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
- H. P. Lovecraft on Beauty
- What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.
- Albrecht Durer on Beauty
- What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!
- Alexander Herzen on Beauty
- What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.
- Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach on Beauty
- What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.
- Julie Burchill on Beauty
- What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
- Joseph Brodsky on Beauty
- What I loved about 'Summer' was that they were these four bright kids with a wonderful future. In a way, she was the one with the brains, and then you have the beauty queen and the jock and the introvert.
- Kevin Williamson on Beauty
- What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
- Dame Edith Evans on Beauty
- What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
- Walter Pater on Beauty
- What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
- Shinichi Suzuki on Beauty
- What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.
- Gertrude Jekyll on Beauty
- What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.
- What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?
- Sarah Bernhardt on Beauty
- What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.
- Lisa Bonet on Beauty
- What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?
- Julie Burchill on Beauty
- What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
- John Keats on Beauty
- What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
- Victor Hugo on Beauty
- Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
- Phyllis Diller on Beauty
- When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
- Bernard Berenson on Beauty
- When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
- Mahatma Gandhi on Beauty
- When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller on Beauty
- When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was how it moved things on from 'Sleeping Beauty'-esque romance novels where the girl had to wait for the hero. This would be girl-driven, very different, I decided - and indeed it is.
- Francine Pascal on Beauty
- When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.
- Annie Lennox on Beauty
- When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.
- Richard Dawkins on Beauty
- When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.
- Vladimir Kramnik on Beauty
- When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
- Agnes Martin on Beauty
- When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.
- Dimebag Darrell on Beauty
- When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.
- Frederick Sanger on Beauty
- When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place.
- Yusef Lateef on Beauty
- When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
- When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
- Natalia Vodianova on Beauty
- When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.
- Christy Turlington on Beauty
- 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.
- Alexis Arguello on Beauty
- Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
- Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?
- Rosalind Russell on Beauty
- Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!
- Charles Baudelaire on Beauty
- Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?
- Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?
- Tony Kushner on Beauty
- Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?
- Mason Cooley on Beauty
- Wigs have always been a part of my life and have become a staple accessory in my closet. I can remember being a little girl and hearing all the commotion in my house from my mom, aunts and grandmother when picking out their wigs for the day. It was such a good time for them and part of their everyday beauty routine.
- Sherri Shepherd on Beauty
- Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
- Thomas Jefferson on Beauty
- Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes on Beauty
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