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Beauty Quotes by Susan Sontag
- In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty and beauty. You get dwarfs.
- Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual…
- Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing…
- Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty.
- The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the…
- Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.
- Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.
- This is the beauty that emerges from self-confidence, class confidence. That says, I am not born to please. I am born to be pleased.
- What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
- The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty…
More Beauty Quotes
- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- 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