Beauty?... To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.
- Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) Spanish Painter, Sculptor, Draughtsman.
Beauty?... To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.
- Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) Spanish Painter, Sculptor, Draughtsman.
"We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) Poet
"Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone."
- Dorothy Parker (1893 -1967) American short-story Write and Poet
"Beauty lies in the specific looks of a person, rather than the object, because different people feel beauty in differnt things."
"For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it."
- Ivan Panin (1855 - 1942) Russian Mathematician
"Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) Poet
"No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will look ugly."
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic
"I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny. "
- Coco Chanel (1883-1971) Fashion Designer
“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 (1930-?) French filmmaker and author |
“Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.”
| — | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, novelist and dramatist. |
“Stop every now and then. Just stop and enjoy. Take a deep breath. Relax and take in the abundance of life.”
“There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.”
| — | John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2007) Canadian-American economist. |