Julia Ward Howe Quotes

In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.

I find beauty very frightening because it's such an all consuming subject in our society.

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.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

I think good-looking people seldom make good television. And American television studios almost concede before they start: 'Well, it won't be good, but at least it'll be good-looking. We'll have nice-looking girls in tight shirts with F.B.I. badges and fit-looking guys with lots of hair gel vaulting over things.'

External beauty is a bizarre thing to me.

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.

I just like beautiful women. They don't have to be a celebrity, though... I mean, if they're beautiful, they're beautiful.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

I really thing that people more and more want beautiful things about them.

I hate the concept of beauty for the sake of it. It is overrated.

If something is done without objectifying, it can be beautiful.

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.

Architects think that beauty is a crime.

You're put on this platform where you see beauty every day, and you kinda get numb to it. So then it's like, 'What else do you have? You really can't hold a conversation? Next'.

When people see me, I might come across as just eye candy.

Beauty really has such a wide field of interpretation. I guess that's why it's forever fascinating.

In Miss India, so much was about how you looked.

Beauty contests are only a mirage where all you have to do is look pretty all the time.

Maybe it's shallow of me to have a wife that's so beautiful, but it makes things easier. To me she's the most beautiful woman in the world.

Indeed, there is no such thing as an altogether ugly woman — or altogether beautiful.

Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical

I think it is every woman's duty to make herself as attractive as her time and means permit. After all, there you are, in your person- a living symbol of the progress of art, science and imagination. To be as attractive as we can be is almost a civic duty; there are so many sad and ugly things in the world that I think women should say to themselves humbly, not with vanity, 'I will try to be as pretty as I can, so that when people look at me, they will feel refreshed. I will make an effort to be easy on the eye.'

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