Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. – Richard Steele
I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle. – James Weldon Johnson
We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it. – Christo
And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world. – Christo
Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn? – Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. – Matthew Arnold
The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past. – Gustav Stresemann
We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living. – Rem Koolhaas
He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral. – John Galsworthy
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty – as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it. – Florence King
Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people. – Richard Armour
That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty. – Ken Thompson
Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. – Donald Knuth
Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music. – John Philip Sousa
I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork. – Bill Griffith
My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry. – Roberto Benigni
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. – Gustave Courbet
It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction. – Richard Le Gallienne
The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks. – Richard Le Gallienne
We also maintain – again with perfect truth – that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination. – Richard Le Gallienne
