“Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.”
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“Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?”
“I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.”
“I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.”
“Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.”
“The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.”
“The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.”
“The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.”
“Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.”
“I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?”
“It is not the beauty of a building you should look at its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.”
“Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.”
“The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.”
“Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.”
“First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.”
“Things are beautiful if you love them.”
“The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.”
“The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.”
“Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.”
“Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.”
“When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.”
“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.”
“Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.”
“It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.”