Beauty is something we can affirm and intend to have more of.
We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.
One night I'll be in Los Angeles and it'll be a Latin crowd, and then another night I'll go to Fresno and it'll be an all-black crowd. To me, that's the beauty of the music.
It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.
When I was 11, I had an Ugly Sister birthday party. All my idea. Most girls want to be a fairy or a princess, but there I am with beauty spots and fur and fluorescent pink kiss-curls.
I love musicians. I think artists are the most amazing people because they're constantly creating beauty for the world. With all the crazy stuff going on in the world, then there's artists reminding us of our humanity and reminding us of our heart and soul and what really matters.
A suit is just a suit: a practical garment, not a ceremonial robe; it can be worn out to dinner with friends or for a visit to an art gallery. Its beauty and craftsmanship are utterly wasted if you think of it as something magical and symbolic.
My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it.
Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more.
In LA, where I live, it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.
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.
In chess, there are some extremely beautiful things in the domain of movement, but not in the visual domain. It's the imagining of the movement or of the gesture that makes the beauty in this case.
I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.
Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.
There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.
We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.
I think one of my favorite things about Paris is the ever-present, nonstop beauty of the city. So I would just walk as much as possible.
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.
Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it.
My livelihood depends on my surface beauty, but when I wash my face, I see a real person there.
I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty.
People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.
The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.
You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from.
Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?
The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments - I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret.
I think the beauty and mystery of boxing is just the immediacy of how it reveals people unlike anything else.
