925 private quotes tagged beauty

“Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places.” — Jennifer Garner

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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.” — Paul Getty

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“The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.” — David Hockney

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“Things are beautiful if you love them.” — Jean Anouilh

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“Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.” — Gian Carlo Menotti

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“Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.” — Jean Rostand

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“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

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“Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.” — Alfred de Vigny

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