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Beauty Quotes by Walter Pater
- Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms,…
- What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of…
- One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the…
- Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what…
- Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative; and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion to its abstractness.…
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