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Beauty Quotes by Roger Scruton
- There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us…
- Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.
- Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.
- Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in…
- There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last
- Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which…
- The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda.
- Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for…
- Art has the ability to redeem life by finding beauty even in the worst aspect of things.
- Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet…
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