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Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

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.

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?

Beauty is not just physical.

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.