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Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
Leon Battista Alberti on beauty

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
Dodie Smith on beauty

I'm not out here to win a beauty contest.
Kirk Gibson on beauty

I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.
Ella R. Bloor on beauty

I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.
Buddy Holly on beauty

Suddenly life has new meaning to me, there's beauty up above and things we never take notice of, you wake up suddenly you're in love.
Billy Ocean on beauty

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.
Lew Wallace on beauty

Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing and so, it seems, is perfect disease.
Peter Latham on beauty

The beauty of having short hair is that I actually can wash and style it at home!
Meagan Good on beauty

The cottage garden most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.
Charlotte Smith on beauty

You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country.
Guglielmo Marconi on beauty

It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
Harold Hamm on beauty

Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.
James Randolph Adams on beauty

The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
Margaret Bourke-White on beauty

It is important to fund young researchers who want to do curiosity-driven research. Curiosity-driven research is a part of life. Some people are curious. They want to learn more about nature and society should help that. It's like art: you can learn more and bring more beauty.
Serge Haroche on beauty

I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.
Renee Vivien on beauty

Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs.
Francesca da Rimini on beauty

I have several computer companies. One of them I have a program for wide-format printing. I have a beauty program. So I have several different programs that I own for printing.
Jerry Mathers on beauty

There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.
Gustav Stickley on beauty

First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.
Gustav Stickley on beauty