The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly. – James Baldwin
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty. – John Cheever
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty. – Jean Genet
The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay. – Michel Gondry
My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain. – Justin Cronin
I think the beauty looks I most regret are those I was persuaded into. – Dita Von Teese
I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair. – Dita Von Teese
My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created. – Dita Von Teese
I really believe that beauty comes from health – sensible eating and exercise. – Dita Von Teese
I do not see any beauty in self-restraint. – Mary MacLane
All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love. – Evelyn Underhill
Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it. – Liv Tyler
Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true. – Delta Burke
The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space. – Ruth St. Denis
When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity. – Vladimir Kramnik
I have learned that acting is not about beauty. – Vincent Cassel
I am thrilled to be able to bring my vision of beauty to others who may be inspired by it. – Carol Alt
Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life. – John Millington Synge
But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life – namely, Beauty. – Georg Brandes
