Lao Tzu Quotes

Such as ne'er saw swans May think crows beautiful.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue mountain. Some see it in a leg of mutton, others in a compound fracture; and to expect others to accept one's own definition of it is as absurd as to expect all humanity to use the same toilet-brush.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

You have to be careful when you use beauty as a guide. There are many theories people didn't think were beautiful at the time but did find beautiful later - and vice versa.

Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.

The creator and arbiter of beauty is the heart; to the male rattlesnake the female rattlesnake is the loveliest thing in nature.

There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.

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

Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.

I don't believe in one ideal beauty.

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty.

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

If I think something is beautiful, there must be somebody out there who will agree with me.

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

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.

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

Spin is 'something is beautiful because we say it's beautiful.'

When a baby is in the room with two women, and one is considered more beautiful than the other, the infant's eyes will go to the more beautiful one.