"Beauty?... To
me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its
meaning comes from nor where it leads to." ~ Pablo Picasso
"Everything
has beauty, but not everyone sees it." ~ Confucius
"Beauty is not
in the face; beauty is a light in the heart." ~ Kahlil
Gibran
"Beauty comes
as much from the mind as from the eye." ~ Grey Livingston
" Fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that
we are compelled to alter it ever six months." ~ Oscar
Wilde
"Perfect sincerity
and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops,
lakes, and diamonds." ~ Henry David Thoreau
"A woman who
cannot be ugly is not beautiful." ~ Karl Kraus
"You can take
no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty,
it will be your soul's own doing." ~ Marie Stopes
"The first question
I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why
do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that
there is no reason." ~ John Cage
"Beauty is an
ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to
be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell
it and that is all." ~ William Somerset Maugham
"Everybody needs
beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where
nature may heal and give strength to body and soul." ~ John
Muir
"Some people,
no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely
move it from their faces into their hearts." ~ Martin
Buxbaum
"It is amazing
how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness." ~
Leo Tolstoy
"I don't like
standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness."
~ Karl Lagerfeld
"The fact of
the matter is that you can use your beauty and use your charm
and be flirtatious, and you can get people interested in your
beauty. But you cannot maintain that. In the end, talent is the
only thing. My work is the only thing that's going to change any
minds." ~ Madonna
Yves Saint Laurent
infused his label with his creative genius, elegant and refined
personality, discreet and distinguished, during a half century
of work, in both luxury and ready-to-wear, because he was convinced
that beauty was a necessary luxury for all men and all women.
"Love of Beauty
is taste, Creation of beauty is Art." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Fashion has
two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds."
~ Coco Chanel
"A man should
hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture
every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate
the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human
soul." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"People are
like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun
is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed
only if there is a light within." ~ Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
"Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt
of God." ~ Jean Anouilh
"Anything in
any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing
beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse
or better by praise." ~ Marcus Aurelius
"Beauty of whatever
kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive
soul to tears." ~ Edgar Allen Poe
"It is not sufficient
to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected
by it." ~ Voltaire