Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality. Ovid on beauty
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. Virginia Woolf on beauty
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty. Shinichi Suzuki on beauty
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. Tom Stoppard on beauty
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. David Hockney on 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. Aldo Leopold on beauty
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself. Baltasar Gracian on beauty
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire. William Congreve on beauty
A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know. Oliver Stone on beauty
The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found. Joan Rivers on beauty
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. Oliver Wendell Holmes on beauty
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? Dennis Prager on beauty
No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society. Naomi Wolf on beauty
Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attractive, whether it's attractiveness that's born of just the physical attributes that they have - this kind of ethereal beauty or translucent pallor - or whether it is more to do with the way they carry themselves. Colin Farrell on beauty
If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young. Anne Lamott on beauty
For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer. Xenophon on beauty
I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life. Tobey Maguire on beauty
After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty. Washington Irving on beauty
Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession do not run after distinctions and rewards but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty. Sydney Smith on beauty