Quotes about Beauty

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

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

I hope you hair curls naturally, does it? Yes, darling, with a little help from others.

And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.