Jonathan Swift Quotes

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.

The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.

The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

There's nothing more superficial to do than to paint a beautiful woman. The most beautiful portraits in art were of ugly women. If you paint Brigitte Bardot, it's a disaster. Sunsets, you have to stay away from sunsets. You paint a sunset, you are in great danger.

Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true.

I am inspired by so much. I am inspired by women, of course - beautiful women. I am also inspired by not so beautiful things in the world.

I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.

Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.

There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am not at all sure that neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind.

Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young, / The young are beautiful--but the old are more beautiful than the young.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

I had seen faces in photographs I might have found beautiful had I known even vaguely in what beauty was supposed to consist. And my father's face, on his death-bolster, had seemed to hint at some form of aesthetics relevant to man. But the faces of the living, all grimace and flush, can they be described as objects?

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

Anything that is beautiful is beautiful just as it is. Praise forms no part of its beauty, since praise makes things neither better nor worse. This applies even more to what it commonly called beautiful: natural objects, for example, or works of art. True beauty has no need of anything beyond itself.

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.

A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.

Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

As to the pretty girls who went past, from the day on which I had first known that their cheeks could be kissed, I had become curious about their souls. And the Universe had appeared to me more interesting.

A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we can pardonpride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands, or moves, or leaves a shadow on the wall, or sits for a portrait to the artist, she confers a favor on the world.

Hey,' he said. It came out hard and frustrated. 'I told you to smile because you're pretty when you smile.' She walked to the bottom of the steps, then looked back at him. 'It'd be better if you thought I was pretty when I don't.