Suzy Kassem Quotes

One man’s “ugly” is another man’s “beautiful.

Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.

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

You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful.

All my own small perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded.

In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.

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.

Beauty is in the eye of the gazer.

There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts however indubitably detected, no effort of reason however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.

Beauty is subjective and should not be limited to only what we see on the outside.

If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty.

I shall not find a painting more beautiful because the artist has painted a hawthorn in the foreground, though I know of nothing more beautiful than the hawthorn, for I wish to remain sincere and because I know that the beauty of a painting does not depend on the things represented in it. I shall not collect images of hawthorn. I do not venerate hawthorn, I go to see and smell it.

Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that we are used to do not bother us, and for that reason we are inclined to call them beautiful. Frequently, when a new or unfamiliar work is accepted as beautiful on its first hearing, its fundamental quality is one that tends to put the mind to sleep.

Well, beauty's in the eye of the beholder... It's all subjective. I'm kind of shy about it, but I'll take it.

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.

Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful.

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

Beauty is an opinion not a fact.

I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth.

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 in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of Beholders wrote to tell me that I've got a face like a rucksack full of dented bells.

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

People don't very much like things that are beautiful - they are so far from their nasty little minds.