Quotes about Beauty

“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”

“There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.”

“The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you.”

“I find beauty in imperfection.”

“A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.”

“I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.”

“The beauty of cricket is that there are so many different opinions as to the best way to do something and at times it is easier to see something when you're not emotionally involved in the game and not responsible for the decision. You can go and have a cup of tea and look at it from a different point of view.”

“In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.”

“Well, to be frank I like natural beauty. Not artificial.”

“There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.”

“For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.”

“As I read 'The Infinities', with its magical, playful richness, its sensuous delight in the power of language to convey the strangeness and beauty of being human, I wondered if J. M. Coetzee, with his bleak, pared-down, elemental view of the world, had ever read a Banville and, if he had, whether he had envied him his astonishing powers.”

“Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?”

“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”

“The beauty of what Apple does at Apple is that they're not on trend; they are classic.”

“The beauty of a Stradivarius is that you can play in Carnegie Hall without any amplification, and it has this - the sound has, inside it, has something that projects, and it has multifaceted sound, something that kind of gets lost when you use amplification anyway.”

“The beauty of being a feminist is that you get to be whatever you want. And that's the point.”

“I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.”

“All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.”

“There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection.”

“That's the beauty of the Internet is that we're no longer tied to our communities by physical connections.”