All things Quote by Bayard Taylor

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are…

— Oscar Wilde

I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but…

— Edward Weston

The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure.

— Henry David Thoreau

There are many kinds of beauty as people who possess it.

— Leonardo da Vinci

throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty.

— Nancy Etcoff

“I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.”

— Mary E. Pearson

The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can…

— Bayard Taylor

If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to your mind…

— Michael Steinhardt

The academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so much as…

— Pablo Picasso

“With the stone question In the heads of Greek statues Who ask where their arms And legs and the tips of their noses Have…

— James Dickey

“You see, the foundations of our culture were laid in classical Greece, where physical beauty and the body were celebrated. But our culture is…

— Ted Chiang

The wrinkled face that shows life's experiences, the rough hands that mold the world, the withered body that stand proud in spite of difficulties…

— Anonymous