“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.”
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“There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.”
“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.”
“I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.”
“Nonsense and beauty have close connections.”
“Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.”
“If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.”
“I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.”
“To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.”
“I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.”
“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.”
“In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.”
“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.”
“I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.”
“The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.”
“It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.”
“There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.”
“There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.”
“Grace in women has more effect than beauty.”
“There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.”
“Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.”
“People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?”
“I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.”