925 private quotes tagged beauty

“Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.” — Miuccia Prada

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“Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.” — Jean-Luc Godard

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“Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.” — Dave Grohl

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“Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside.” — Emmanuelle Beart

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“Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.” — John Milton

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“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.” — Benjamin Britten

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“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

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“Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.” — Rashida Jones

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“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

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“The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

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“The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“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

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“I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.” — Robert Browning

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“Physical beauty is such a strange thing.” — Jock Sturges

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“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.” — Chanakya

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“Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.” — Gustav Mahler

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

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“I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.” — Jack London

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“I think the beauty of working with young people is they remind you of the spirit of acting and it's just a big play.” — Eric Bana

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“Beauty is not just physical.” — Halle Berry

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“I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.” — Bob Dylan

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“I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied.” — Robert Mapplethorpe

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“Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.” — Jean Paul

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“The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.” — Audrey Hepburn

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