They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous. – Lillie Langtry
Beauty is not just physical. – Halle Berry
Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos. – Gustav Mahler
Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again. – Margaret Cho
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends. – Pearl S. Buck
But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose. – Lafcadio Hearn
Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity. – Jonathan Sacks
For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide. – Thomas Mann
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. – Thomas Mann
What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty. – Hu Shih
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. – Theophile Gautier
A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty. – Diane Kruger
I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world. – Diane Kruger
What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money. – Lisa Bonet
I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty. – Miuccia Prada
Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. – Julie Burchill
What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven. – Julie Burchill
Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror. – Pamela Anderson
Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving. – George Henry Lewes
I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold. – Howard Lindsay
