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Beauty Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
- I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
- An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same…
- It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.
- Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
- The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
- Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
- There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
- The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to…
- I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of…
- All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of the absolute and…
- All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of…
- Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!
- Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.
- You walk on corpses, beauty, undismayed.
- Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental…
- These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling and…
- Go then, a starveling girl With no perfume or pearls, Only your nudity O my beauty!
- That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment,…
- Laments of an Icarus The paramours of courtesans Are well and satisfied, content. But as for me my limbs are rent Because I clasped the…
- Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
- Tell me, enigmatical man, whom do you love best, your father, Your mother, your sister, or your brother? I have neither father, nor mother, nor…
More Beauty Quotes
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put… — Kevyn Aucoin
- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves,… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine