Ancient Quote by John Walford

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is…

— Gustave Courbet

Beauty is the product of the dominant ideology. (Thus when ideology changes, the ideal body follows.) We can see that in the history of…

— Orlan

Beauty ensnares hearts, captures minds, and stirs up emotional wildfires. From Plato to pinups, images of human beauty have catered to a limitless desire…

— Nancy Etcoff

Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression.

— Karl Marx

In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the…

— John Walford

Beauty is primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterance of the…

— Aroha Janet

Beauty is like a soul that hovers over the surface of form. Its presence is unmistakable in art or in life.

— Gutzon Borglum

Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the…

— George Santayana

Beauty seen from the viewpoint of the eye of the beholder.

— Anonymous

In images,... beauty was the agency that caused visual pleasure in the beholder; and any theory of images that was not grounded in the…

— Dave Hickey

Beauty is the ability to utilize the tools provided in order to showcase your spirit in order to show your true soul.

— Carmen Carrera

Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel