Pastoral Resources

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.

The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.