We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
In art, vitality is the chaotic initial state; beauty is the cosmic final state.
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
We are born sad and die sad, but in the meantime, we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.
Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
“Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty .”
Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
When mind is absent, the beauty of the body is animalistic.
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
I've found that there is always some beauty left, in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
The beauty when accompanied by prudence is admirable, without it is damaging to those who possess it .
In youth and beauty, wisdom is rare!
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
The woman with dark hair, wide hips, and a few extra pounds has always been the essence of beauty in Morocco.
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.
Love beauty; it is the shadow of God on the universe
You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.
Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible
Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final.
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
I am still sensitive to beauty. I would say, almost more so! The objects are somewhat distorted, blurry like impressionist paintings that strike you, sometimes, and draw you in. But external beauty remains transitory, whereas the beauty of a text, of a sentence, is an idea that I will keep within me an entire day.
Beauty is the promise of happiness
There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
I love songs that talk about beauty, courage and humanity.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.