'Pretty' is not the amount of makeup on your face or the shirt you're wearing or the size of your pants - that is false.
If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty.
I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who "appreciate" beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There's no such thing. I never "appreciate," any more than I "like." I love it or I hate.
I also remembered that you were beautiful." "Memory does play tricks on us." "No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore.
What we all learn is that beauty isn't a size 2. It's not a size 4. It's not a size 12. It's how you feel.
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.
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.
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
Beauty is subjective and should not be limited to only what we see on the outside.
It's high time the film industry stopped treating fair skin as a parameter of beauty. You could be the fairest of them all, but if you have a wicked soul, you aren't beautiful at all. So, skin colour doesn't define a person's beauty.
We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.
Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful.
Beauty is the enemy . We try to conquer not feeling beautiful all our lives. It's a battle that can't be won. There's no definition of beauty. The only way to achieve beauty is to feel it from inside without breaking down into individual physical attributes.
There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.
I look up to people not necessarily based on what they look like. For example, Edith Piaf is somebody I think is a beauty hero even though she was definitely considered to not be beautiful. It was just her charisma and stage presence, and to me, that really defines beauty.
It is not that which is beautiful that pleases us, but that which pleases is is called beautiful.
I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.
Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.
In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.
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.
There are very, very few brands that will be brave enough to really, completely take a step back and not to try and control what is considered beautiful.
Beauty is where you find it.
Beauty doesn't have to be in accord with prefabricated concepts of 'pretty.'
I just want to continue to break barriers and to show the industry and the world that beauty is diverse, and you don't have to be a certain stereotype to be beautiful.
