Beauty Quote by Richard Preston

“But if "beauty" is in the eye of the beholder, so is "obscenity.”

— Sydney J. Harris

That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.

— John Donne

Beauty really has such a wide field of interpretation. I guess that's why it's forever fascinating.

— Stella Maxwell

“We were thirsty for some form of beauty, even in an incomprehensible, overintellectual, abstract film with no subtitles and censored out of recognition. There…

— Azar Nafisi

They confused beauty with innocence and harmlessness.

— Cassandra Clare

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The concept of 'obscenity' is tested when one dares to look at something that he has an unbearable desire to see but has forbidden…

— Nagisa Oshima

It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

— Christopher Hitchens

Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.

— Anonymous

“Beauty is a nonviolent experience of near death, a warning that one is fragile, like everything else in the universe.”

— Timothy Morton

It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn't let you admire it. The sort of beauty that always hurt.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which all have…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson