Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. C. Escher

I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me consorting with all these learned folks, as though I were their long lost brother. I guess they are unaware of the fact that I am ignorant about the whole thing.

Lord Chesterfield

Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow.

Lord Chesterfield

Women's beauty, like men's wit, is generally fatal to the owners.

Mahatma Gandhi

True beauty consists of purity of heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.

Mahatma Gandhi

Real beauty is my aim.

Mahatma Gandhi

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

Mahatma Gandhi

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

Gavin Rossdale

It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.

Gabrielle Union

Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Oliver Stone

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

Octave Mirbeau

While all is new, all is beautiful. That is a well-known song. Yes, and the next day the air changes into another one equally well known.

Octavia Butler

You are horror and beauty in rare combination.

Octavio Paz

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

Emilio Estevez

We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us-that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect.

Emile Zola

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

Ellen DeGeneres

What you look like on the outside is not what makes you cool at all. I mean, I had a mullet and wore parachute pants for a long, long time, and I'm doin' okay.

Emily Dickinson

Beauty crowds me till I die.

Emily Dickinson

I died for Beauty--but was scarce Adjusted in the Tomb When One who died for Truth, was lain In an adjoining Room

Emily Dickinson

Beauty crowds me till I die. Beauty, mercy have on me! Yet if I expire to-day Let it be in sight of thee!

Ellsworth Huntington

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

Ellis Peters

Beauty is a perilous gift ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There's nothing fair nor beautiful, but takes Something from thee, that makes it beautiful.

Henri Poincare

But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following.

Henri Matisse

The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.

Henri Matisse

When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.

These are the beautiful people, who, befitting their rank as gods and goddesses of a powerful modern mythology, lead beautiful lives in beautiful houses, attired in beautiful clothes and, ostensibly, thinking only beautiful thoughts.

Henry Ward Beecher

Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.

Henry Ward Beecher

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

Henry James

There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.

Henry Fielding

In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.