Anne Rice Quotes

I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up 'incredibly beautiful' in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.

For some reason, Hollywood seems to have painted me as a gorgeous vixen at times or the sweet girl.

What is beauty, anyway? It's more than something pleasant looking. If it doesn't stop us in our tracks and make us unable to move for a moment, unable to put into words what's closing off the breath in our throats, then maybe it's pretty, but it probably isn't beauty.

I've never seen a woman half as beautiful as Jennifer Love Hewitt.

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.

Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the string can do, in whatever its form, is conduct a person's silence.

The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.

There is nothing that is more beautiful than everything else in the world.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

You think I'm cute?" He said thinkly, pulling on her hand. She was glad he couldn't see her face. "I think you're..." Beautiful. Breathtaking. Like the person in a Greek myth who makes one of the gods stop caring about being a god.

If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true.

It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word of choice by persons grasping to describe something so beautiful it is marvelously ineffable.

I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.

We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.

I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.

While truth is ultimately convergent, beauty is ultimately divergent. No one can and no one should tell anyone else what that person should consider beautiful.

Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.

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 beautiful woman is a practical poet.

There is nothing truly beautiful but that which can never be of any use whatsoever; everything useful is ugly, for it is the expression of some need, and man's needs are ignoble and disgusting like his own poor and infirm nature. The most useful place in a house is the water-closet.

It is the search for beauty...That is what it is. We find ourselves on this earth--gods and men--and we know that it is beautiful. That is one of the few things we understand--beauty; because it is there, in the world, and we can see it all about us. We want beauty. It requires our love. It just does.

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

There is nothing that pleases me more than a beautiful sentence ... It is something that satisfies me.

The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.

It is only framed in space that beauty blooms; only in space are events, and objects and people unique and significant and therefore beautiful.