Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
Ambrose Bierce
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 disproportions.
Charles Baudelaire
Ugliness like beauty is only skin deep
Unknown
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
Edward Steichen
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buckminster Fuller
Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up in the phrase: To create a harmony.
Gino Severini
Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
Martin Buxbaum
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Kahlil Gibran
The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony.
Mary Baker Eddy
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
Sophia Loren
It's [beauty] a kind of radiance. People who possess a true inner beauty, their eyes are a little brighter, their skin a little more dewy. They vibrate at a different frequency.
Cameron Diaz
Serenity and inner beauty come when we wait upon God. 'Waiting' like that is not merely wasting time.” Eva BuSerenity and inner beauty come when we wait upon God. 'Waiting' like that is not merely wasting time.
Eva Burrowrrow
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe