Beauty Quote by Reinaldo Arenas

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, as defined by society at large, seemed to be only about who was best at looking like everyone else.

— Lucy Grealy

“In essence, Ficino’s philosophy elevated the liberal arts, pure scientific research, and the centrality of the individual and his or her immortal soul’s redemption…

— Benjamin Blech

I look up to people not necessarily based on what they look like. For example, Edith Piaf is somebody I think is a beauty…

— Kat Von D

Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other.

— Richard Flanagan

“Their love, however, was the epitome of what we today would label “platonic.” They loved each other’s minds. Michelangelo was thrilled to find an…

— Benjamin Blech

“Beauty can break a heart and make it think about something more spiritual than the mindless routine we go through day after day to…

— Ian Morgan Cron

Leonardo da Vinci was comfortable being illegitimate, gay, a misfit, a heretic. But he also respected other people. He didn't get into disputations. He…

— Walter Isaacson

The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think, worthy of…

— Dennis Lehane

“The concept of beauty is the straightjacket of a woman's soul.”

— Carmilla Voiez

Beauty is not that which you were born, but the real beauty of character based on human values

— Anonymous