Beauty quotes
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"The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms."
"Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted."
"Life has left her footprints on my forehead. But I have become a child again this morning. The smile, seen through leaves and flowers, is back to smooth away the wrinkles, as the rains wipe away footprints on the beach. Again a cycle of birth and death begins."
"What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us."
"There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle."
"The beauty of a lovely woman is like music."
"Thank you, God, for the dignity and beauty of self. The precious innate self. The only thing that can't be taken from us. The only thing we really own."
"It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance ... To perceive freshly, with fresh senses is to be inspired."
"Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart."
"Beauty will save the world"
"A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty."
"An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones."
"Only when the mind is completely alone can it know what is beauty, and not in any other state."
"It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself."
"Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting."
"Nothing can be beautiful which is not true."
"He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness."
"In all things that live there are certain irregularities, and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry."
"The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it."
"Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power."
