Quotes about Beauty

Diamonds are proof that the most valuable things are sometimes formed in the dark.

As for women who were pretty, intelligent, strikingly sensual, the daughters of rich families—they would only have served to disrupt my carefully ordered existence

A muddied diamond is better than an unsullied pebble.

Spring is proof that there is beauty in new beginnings.

The loveliest gifts sometimes come wrapped in the ugliest paper.

If God wanted the woods to be quiet, He would not have given birds songs to sing.

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

This dark brightness that falls from the stars.

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.

I got obsessed with makeup and makeup artists when I was young, with people like Kevyn Aucoin.

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