Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.
Beyonce is good-looking. Jennifer Lopez is good-looking. Madonna used to be good-looking.
I have always loved things that are timeless and get better with age.
The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.
When people say, 'Doesn't Gloria [Vanderbilt] look great? She's 85.' I say, 'Yes, she was a raving beauty when she was 20,' that's the key. Very helpful.
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
Beauty can be quite boring, especially if you're talking about beauty that doesn't last. And what lasts is exactly the thing that maybe wasn't pretty at first. It comes over time to be beautiful or interesting or exciting.
No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages. She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth.
One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older. I am, in fact, at this very moment gaining my looks.
Once we turn, it’s new pretty, middle pretty, late pretty.” Shay dropped her arms, and her board stopped drifting. “Then dead pretty.
