Albrecht Durer Quotes

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.

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

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

I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

We know beauty when we see it, and our reactions are remarkably consistent. Beauty is not just a social construct, and not every girl is beautiful just the way she is.

I love to look at beauty.

Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?

I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!

By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

Beauty is a combination of qualities. I don't think one can deny that certain people or things feel aesthetically pleasing. But without an equally pleasing being behind that form, there is no beauty there.

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

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

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.

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.

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

External beauty is a bizarre thing to me.

I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.