"It was Matisse who took the first step……" — Gelett Burgess
"It was Matisse who took the first step into the undiscovered land of the ugly."
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
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- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — 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… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — 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