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But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
Lafcadio Hearn on beauty

Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.
Jonathan Sacks on beauty

I've actually spent a lot of time researching beauty products, how they are produced and how they are sold.
Lauren Conrad on beauty

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.
Thomas Mann on beauty

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
Thomas Mann on beauty

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.
Hu Shih on beauty

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
Theophile Gautier on beauty

I'm not one of those women who thinks beauty is a curse.
Diane Kruger on beauty

A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.
Diane Kruger on beauty

I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world.
Diane Kruger on beauty

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
Jean Rostand on beauty

What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.
Lisa Bonet on beauty

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
Agnes Martin on beauty

The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.
Adam Carolla on beauty

I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.
Miuccia Prada on beauty

Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion.
Miuccia Prada on beauty

What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?
Julie Burchill on beauty

Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.
Julie Burchill on beauty

The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.
Julie Burchill on beauty

What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.
Julie Burchill on beauty