Beauty's attractive, and we don’t want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones.
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Even beauties can be unattractive. If you catch a beauty in the wrong light at the right time, forget it. I believe in low lights and trick mirrors. I believe in plastic surgery.
- Andy Warhol
The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it.
- C.S. lewis
I feel like a defective model, like I came off the assembly line flat-out fucked and my parents should have taken me back for repairs before the warranty ran out. But that was so long ago.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
- Francis Bacon
The best and most beautiful thing in life cannot be seen, not touched, but are felt in the heart.
- Hellen Keller
The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
- John Cage
Mute icons are the only kind of beauty we find acceptable today.
- Mark Rothko
Fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it ever six months
- Oscar Wilde
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
- William Somerset Maugham
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities
- Michaelangelo, In Art/Michelangelo
Truth and love are my law and worship; Form and conscience my manifestation and guide; Nature and peace are my shelter and companion; Order is my attitude; Beauty and perfection are my attack.
- Wayne Kramer, In Humanity


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