925 private quotes tagged beauty

“The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.” — Eliza Farnham

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“Design is not making beauty; beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.” — Louis Kahn

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“I always say beauty is only sin deep.” — Hector Hugh Munro

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“Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.” — Phyllis Diller

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“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

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“Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.” — Lindsay Wagner

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“I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.” — Zoe Saldana

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“Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.” — Wallace Stevens

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“The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.” — Thomas B. Macaulay

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“The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.” — Vladimir Kramnik

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“Beauty is a fragile gift.” — Ovid

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“There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.” — Helena Christensen

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“I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair.” — Dita Von Teese

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“Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.” — Tia Carrere

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“The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.” — Hugh Hefner

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“Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.” — Frank Miller

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“This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.” — Tom Wolfe

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“No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.” — Albrecht Durer

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“Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?” — Sara Teasdale

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“It is not the beauty of a building you should look at its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.” — David Allan Coe

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“Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.” — Arne Jacobsen

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“The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.” — Salvador Dali

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“Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.” — Goldwin Smith

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“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

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“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.” — Max Eastman

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