Beauty Quotes
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I want to give meaning to the history of the past, but to do it in real time, as if it were lived. This gives a special touch to my films, because you feel that I didn't have one single idea of the concrete meaning of what I wanted to say or what you have to feel or what you have to think. For me, this is the beauty, to see the past being born in front of you.
Albert Serra -
“People used to avoid mountains, but now we seek their company. We come for the pretty sights, but also to find a place still free from those life-saving constraints. We come to the mountain seeking beauty and terror.”
Bruce Barcott
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Beauty ensnares hearts, captures minds, and stirs up emotional wildfires. From Plato to pinups, images of human beauty have catered to a limitless desire to see and imagine an ideal human form.
Nancy Etcoff -
O love, what strange and wonderful fits: one sole thing, one beauty alone, can give me life and deprive me of wits.
Gaspara Stampa -
In naked beauty most adorned.
John Milton -
Aphrodite had the beauty; Zeus had the thunderbolts. Everyone loved Aphrodite, but everyone listened to Zeus.
Esther M. Friesner -
An understanding of beauty and enthusiasm for it are one and the same.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach -
It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.
Thomas Hardy
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I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
William Butler Yeats -
Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
Salvador Dali -
Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost.
William Shakespeare -
Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.
Marcel Proust -
Because of something told under the famished horn Of the hunter's moon, that hung between the night and the day, To dream of women whose beauty was folded in dismay, Even in an old story, is a burden not to be borne.
William Butler Yeats -
To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.
Barry Long
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Zen practice is about not getting high on anything and in so doing getting high on absolutely everything. We then find that everything we encounter - bliss or nonbliss - possesses a tremendous depth and beauty that we usually miss.
Brad Warner -
Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. -
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.
William James -
The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable laws of Nature
August Bournonville -
Behind each thing a shadow lies; Beauty hath e'er its cost: Within the moonlight-flooded skies How many stars are lost!
Clark Ashton Smith
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Beauty is the lowest common denominator: I don't care what they say - every girl, every woman, wants to feel pretty and empowered and beautiful, within their own definition of beautiful. I love fashion, I love shopping, but I love beauty more because I love the science of it.
Eva Chen -
Now in these troubled times, even more than ever, we need an affirmation that there is goodness and beauty in the world.
Bob Benson -
The thing which we speak of as beauty does not have to be sought in distant lands. . . . It is here about us or it is nowhere.
Allen Tucker -
Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
Blaise Pascal