Tom Ford Quotes

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.

This is so cliche, but my beauty icon would have to be Angelina Jolie. She looks like she wears natural makeup, but she's still beautiful.

It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.

One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

The 80s was an outstanding era.

When it comes to the '90s, there's nothing I want to repeat.

Things were so much better in the 1970s, when I was a young women undergraduate at Yale. I am grateful to have come of age during that period.

I grew up in the '70s, so I even love the music that I didn't like from that era.

The '80s was wild compared to my real small childhood, which was late '70s.

Well, I'm not going to be singing about lollipops because I no longer relate to lollipops.

Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.

Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.

There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was sexually stimulating.

I'm surrounded by young and beautiful people. I hate looking at ugliness.

Often I'll do research just to get a time period correct, but I didn't have to for the '70s... I feel like I can close my eyes and still see it so clearly.

There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us. Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, room, dress, and so on. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste.

Time can but make her beauty over again.

That's how powerful you are, girl...You pretty, but pretty alone is not what people see. You the kinda pretty, the kinda beauty, that's like a mirror. Men and women see themselves in you, only now they so beautiful that they can't bear to see you go.

Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.

Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.

Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.

There's just something about that late '80s that suddenly feels like it has something to teach us.

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.