My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
She is a peacock in everything but beauty.
If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
Beauty is a fragile gift.
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.
Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.
I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.
This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
Honestly, Korean beauty standards are harsh. People are even putting pressure on non-celebrities to be super skinny, and the standards of thinness are just getting worse.
Less make-up is better, and it's always better to let your natural beauty shine. Essentially, be happy with your appearance.
We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.
Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.
I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through.
Social media has revolutionised how beauty is curated, captured, and consumed.
Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.
It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.
A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.
Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance.
I have been honoured to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me.
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
The Sanctuary at Two Rivers offers a much needed escape or retreat from the fast paced, modern lifestyle we have all become accustomed to, with its exquisite beauty, serenity, and raw nature. Costa Rica was the perfect place for developing such an important project.
I'm firmly convinced that true beauty only springs from the acceptance of oneself, from an awareness of who we really are.
The idea of beauty today is a bloody mess. It's really awful. You look in the fashion magazines and see all of these retouched people. Some guys called retouchers go on the computer and take away everything that you are and then call it photography. I think it's such an insult.
Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
Citizens of Ukraine will never enjoy the beauty of peace unless we settle down our relations with Russia.
I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral.
In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.
Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.
Coming from a pageant title that celebrates diversity, I've come to appreciate all kinds of beauty.
In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And I know I, as a writer, will often try to include a lot of empty space on the page so that the reader can complete my thoughts and sentences and so that her imagination has room to breathe.
A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music - these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.
How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and freedom born of a living relationship with Christ!