Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.

Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.

Beauty satisfies the senses completely and at the same time uplifts the soul. That which gratifies the senses is pleasant, and that which uplifts the soul without being sensual in the least is good, true, right, anything you like, but not beautiful.

I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.

I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.

It's been a growth process for each of us to understand why we find certain things beautiful. And if we do find something beautiful, we'll chase it, because you want to understand yourself and what your psyche is creating.

It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.

If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.

In ourselves, rather than in material nature, lie the true source and life of the beautiful. The human soul is the sun which diffuses light on every side, investing creation with its lovely hues, and calling forth the poetic element that lies hidden in every existing thing.

When we see something beautiful it calls up raw, naked emotion and that's an embarrassing situation to be in.

Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull

The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.

Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.

That which is required in order to the attainment of accurate conclusions respecting the essence of the Beautiful is nothing morethan earnest, loving, and unselfish attention to our impressions of it.

It is not that which is beautiful that pleases us, but that which pleases is is called beautiful.

I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you've had an experience. It's the way you feel about it that is beautiful.

I'm about what goes through people's minds. The stuff that people don't want to admit or face up to. The shows are about what's buried in people's psyches.

In beautiful things St. Francis saw Beauty itself, and through His vestiges imprinted on creation he followed his Beloved everywhere, making from all things a ladder by which he could climb up and embrace Him who is utterly desirable.

The experience of bliss will give you an insight into the very phenomenon of beauty. Not only does it make you beautiful, it suddenly transforms the whole world. The whole world becomes beautiful because the world reflects you, it is a mirror.

We do all kinds of things to remain beautiful. Yet, we spend surprisingly little time taking care of what matters most - the way our mind functions.

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

A flower may be beautiful all on its own, but a person is never truly beautiful unless someone's eyes show him that he is beautiful.

The things I want to express are so beautiful and pure.

It's so internalized, the way your mind works in relation to anything - it's a process, but then it isn't. It's working all the time.

Some models who aren't the most beautiful end up becoming the greatest of all time.