Quotes about beauty
Welcome to our Beauty collection, a celebration of the exquisite, the enchanting, and the artistry that resides in every facet of life. In this curated compilation of quotes, we explore the multifaceted concept of beauty, from the visual allure that catches the eye to the deeper resonance that stirs the soul.
Beauty is more than skin deep; it's a reflection of the world's richness, the symmetry of nature, and the expressions of creativity that grace our lives. Our Beauty quotes celebrate the power of aesthetics, the authenticity of inner beauty, and the transformative experiences that arise from recognizing and appreciating beauty around us.
Whether you're drawn to the elegance of art, captivated by the harmony of nature, or seeking to delve into the profound impact of beauty on our emotions, these quotes offer insights into the subjective and universal nature of this enchanting concept.
Embark on a journey that explores the interplay of aesthetics and emotions, the influence of culture on perceptions of beauty, and the moments that leave us awe-inspired. Discover the beauty in imperfections, the magic of authenticity, and the power of finding beauty in unexpected places.
Alicia Machado
— ActressI think being beautiful is only one aspect of your life.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterFor me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don't.
Sofia Vergara
— ActressBeauty is really all about confidence. If you feel beautiful, then you are beautiful.
Sarah Vowell
— AuthorIf I looked in the mirror someday and saw no dark circles under my eyes, I would probably look better. I just wouldn't look like me.
Flora Thompson
— NovelistSo quiet and subtle is the beauty of December that escapes the notice of many people their whole lives through. Colour gives way to form: every branch distinct, in a delicate tracery against the sky. New vistas, obscured all Summer by leafage, now open up.
Patricia Piccinini
— ArtistSkywhale is ambiguous. I think she is beautiful, but a lot of people think she is grotesque. You are drawn in and repelled at the same time, and it has to have that dynamic. My work has a certain element of abject mutation, uncertainty and darkness. Even she is dark - I mean she has ten breasts.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsA poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
Paul Halmos
— Influential Mathematician & Educator[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as one thing - one great, glorious thing. Whether it is differential topology, or functional analysis, or homological algebra, it is all one thing. ... They are intimately interconnected, they are all facets of the same thing. That interconnection, that architecture, is secure truth and is beauty. That's what mathematics is to me.
Blake Lively
— American actress, model, director, and advocateWhat can I say? I feel good when I'm wearing heels. I feel sexier, attractive.
Luis Cernuda
— Spanish poetEverything beautiful has its moment and then passes away.
Ciara
— American singerBeing beautiful is all in the attitude, it's about confidence.
Kafu Nagai
— Japanese writer, essayist, diarist and translatorKnowing this to be a worthless life to live, why do I keep living on? Because this life contains something called beauty7.
Bipasha Basu
— Indian actress and modelI know I look good. The regular adjectives that come my way - sexy, hot, dusky, bong bombshell I love them.
Craig Stone
— English footballerWinter has arrived in North London. Snow has settled.
The white snow looks beautiful and covers everything my eyes can see, yet beneath the incomprehensible beauty, the snow freezes greenery which struggles to breathe.
Green leaves freeze from existence as children scream go faster to fathers who push them along in upside down bin lids, as they make the most of their schools being closed.
David Hume
— Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayistIt is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. Art is only the under-workman, and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces, which come from the hand of the master.
Kate Hudson
— American actressWhat's beautiful about my mother is her compassion, how much she gives, whether it be to her kids and grandkids or out in the world. She's got a sparkle.
Yves Saint Laurent
— French fashion designerThe most beautiful makeup is passion, but cosmetics are easier to buy.
Audrey Hepburn
— British ActressThe beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.
Eknath Easwaran
— Indian-born spiritual teacher, author and translator and interpreter of Indian religious textsAn unhurried mind brings the capacity to make wise choices every day - choices of how we use our time, of where we place our resources and our love. I am not just talking about avoiding the rat race, but about a life full of an artistic beauty - a life that has almost vanished from modern civilization, but is quite within the reach of everyone.
Jennifer Lopez
— American singer, actress, and dancerBeauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit. Someone said to me not too long ago, "Until you're twenty, you have the face you are born with, and after that you have the face you deserve", and I really loved that - the idea that you wear who you are on your face.
Paula Abdul
— American singer, dancer, choreographer, actress, and television personalityI believe inner beauty is beauty in its truest form. When we nurture ourselves, it brings an inevitable, positive transformation.
George Grenville
— British Whig statesmanThe criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that corresponds with the right reason, and it is not merely the creature of fancy.
Charlotte Ronson
— English fashion designerI had always wanted to expand to beauty, but I knew I wanted to be able to translate my design aesthetic in an authentic way.
Frida Kahlo
— Mexican painterI wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty... love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain.
Marisa Miller
— American model and occasional film actressWell, beauty's in the eye of the beholder... It's all subjective. I'm kind of shy about it, but I'll take it.
Kim Kardashian
— American media personality, socialite, model, and businesswomanThe things I'm passionate about are beauty and fashion.
Mary McDonnell
— American actressWe have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.
Michael Gungor
— American singer-songwriter, producer, music editor, author, and podcast hostI do think that Christians will make music that oh should have some of the grandest visions of why we should create music and why we should seek to create beauty world.
Jessica Bird
— American novelistBut then, gifts are like beauty, are they not. It is in the eye of the recipient that they find their seat, not in the hand of the giver.
Jon Foreman
— American musician, the lead singer, guitarist, main songwriter and co-founderI think that's the beauty of live music - creating from the destruction.
Herman Melville
— American novelist, short story writerReal strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
Dolores del Rio
— Mexican actress, dancer and singerBeauty does not come with creams and lotions. God can give us beauty, but whether that beauty remains or chagnes is determined by our thoughts and deeds.
Fritz Todt
— German construction engineer and seniorThe ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty.
Diahann Carroll
— American actress, singer, model, and activistWhenever you're on television, there's a responsibility to look timeless. I worked with the masters of film, fashion and beauty. I took their words into my soul, like a kind of religion that I exhibited to the world to all of our benefit. To this day, it takes a great deal of time to do my makeup the way I feel comfortable. At 82, it's still a part of what I do. I enjoy it.
Hugh Jackman
— Australian actorIt's good to be young and full of dreams. Dreams of one day doing something 'insanely great.' Dreams of love, beauty, achievement, and contribution. But understand they have a life of their own, and they're not very good at following instructions. Love them, revere them, nurture them, respect them, but don't ever become a slave to them. Otherwise you'll kill them off prematurely, before they get the chance to come true.
Brooke Burke
— American television personality, fitness personality, author, actress, and businesswomanPower and beauty come from a very deep place.
Florence Littauer
— American Christian self-help author and public speakerThe beauty of the written word is that it can be held close to the heart and read over and over again.
Bryant Terry
— African-American vegan chef, food justice activist, and authorWithin an hour I can be at the ocean, the forest, the mountains in San Francisco...But really, I fell in love with the city the first time I came out here in 2003. In addition to the natural beauty, this is ground zero for the food justice movement.
Eli Siegel
— Poet, critic, and educatorAll beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.
James Fenton
— English poet, journalist and literary criticAn aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and a large amount of variation and repetition. That's the beauty of it. It's not taxing to the listener's intelligence because if you haven't heard it the first time round, it'll come around again.
Demi Lovato
— American singer, songwriter, and actorWhen I look back, it saddens me to think that I was so hard on myself - when I was younger, I thought I had to look like everyone else, but I learned that beauty comes from how you feel about yourself. Once I started taking care of my mind, body, and soul, I realized that I didn't need to conform to what's "normal" and started to love myself.
Daniel H. Pink
— American authorDo what you can't and experience the beauty of the mistakes you make.
Gil Scott-Heron
— American soul and jazz poetI am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer, or musician. These are merely tools used by sensitive men to carve out a piece of beauty or truth that they hope may lead to peace and salvation.
Esha Gupta
— Indian film actress, model and the winner of the Miss India International title of 2007I would never like to endorse a fairness cream. I believe in natural beauty.
Bethany Mota
— American video bloggerI started my YouTube channel when I was 13. At the time, I was being bullied by a few people who I used to be very close to. I felt very alone and unmotivated. After discovering the beauty community, I decided it would be a great way to express myself and use it as an outlet to be who I am.
Arundhati Roy
— Indian authorAs she watched him she understood the quality of his beauty. How his labor had shaped him. How the wood he fashioned had fashioned him. Each plank he planed, each nail he drove, each thing he made molded him. Had left its stamp on him. Had given him his strength, his supple grace.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
— English poet, playwright, novelist, and criticThough one were fair as roses His beauty clouds and closes.
Alberto Korda
— Cuban photographerThe beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.
Ben Okri
— Nigerian poet and novelistI am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
Brian Jacques
— English novelistAll little creatures are beautiful...every living thing when it first sees life is born in beauty. What they grow to be is a different matter.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodBeauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Allen Ginsberg
— American poet and writerone must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment, that very area of personal self-recognition,(detailed individual is universal remember) which formal conventions, internalized, keep us from discovering in ourselves and others
Adrian Anthony Gill
— British journalist, critic, and authorIf the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.
Andreja Pejic
— Australian ModelFashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself. Just not overweight.
Aerin Lauder
— American BusinesswomanIf you feel comfortable in what you're wearing, you'll look your best, and I think that's a really important idea. Sometimes, whether it's fashion or beauty, things are on-trend, and they look beautiful on the runway, but when I apply them to myself, it doesn't look the way it should.
Adlai Stevenson I
— American PoliticianA beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
Christian Dior
— French fashion designer, best known as the founder of one of the world's top fashion houses Christian Dior SEWe were emerging from the period of war, of uniforms, of women-soldiers built like boxers. I drew women-flowers, soft shoulders, fine waists like liana and wide skirts like corolla.
Gisele Bundchen
— Brazilian model, activist, and businesswomanI love that feeling of, you know, we are women, we are so different, our imperfections are what make us unique and beautiful.
Donna Air
— English actress, television presenter and media personalityThere are a lot of very beautiful people in world. I'd love to tell you who my pin-ups are now, but I might meet them.
Alessia Cara
— Canadian singer-songwriterThere's something so beautiful in a woman who loves her body and is confident.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
— American supermodel and actressWhen asked her view of cosmetic surgery, Carmen Dell'Orefice replies, '”That's a very polite way of asking me, I'm sure, ‘Have you had a facelift?' Well, if you had the ceiling falling down in your living room, would you not go and have a repair?
Albert Camus
— French PhilosopherBeauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Gianni Versace
— Italian fashion designer, socialite and businessmanI watch women continuously. I want them to look beautiful, I am not interested in making them funny, but just beautiful. They have got to look marvelous to please their own men.
Alber Elbaz
— Israeli fashion designerI always say that women are very strong and men are powerful. But beauty gives you both strength and power. I never think of it. It's just one of those natural things. It's the only thing I know how to do.
Alexander Herzen
— Russian JournalistWhat breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!
Abby Johnson
— American ActivistI want women to understand that the most beautiful thing a woman's body does is to grow other human beings.
Camille Rowe
— French ModelI feel like people are like, 'Ooh, French beauty, they don't do anything.' But I think it's more about looking as natural as possible.
Alan Alda
— American ActorWhat is beauty, anyway? It's more than something pleasant looking. If it doesn't stop us in our tracks and make us unable to move for a moment, unable to put into words what's closing off the breath in our throats, then maybe it's pretty, but it probably isn't beauty.
Adwoa Aboah
— British ModelBecause I would be around so many people in the fashion industry, there's this kind of dialogue. People would always say, 'Oh your daughter is so beautiful. Is she a model?' And it was so strange for me to hear because I felt so not beautiful inside.
Aristotle
— Greek PhilosopherPersonal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.