Perception of Beauty Quotes

The only difference between a flower and a weed is judgement.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

It's like he would take a photograph of Sam, and the photograph would be beautiful. And he would think that the reason the photograph was beautiful was because of how he took it. If I took it, I would know that the only reason it's beautiful is because of Sam.

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

In short, Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her. Beauty is character and expression. Well, there is nothing in nature which has more character than the human body. In its strength and its grace it evokes the most varied images. One moment it resembles a flower: the bending torso is the stalk; the breasts, the head, and the splendor of the hair answer to the blossoming of the corolla. The next moment it recalls the pliant creeper, or the proud and upright sapling.

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.

Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.

The reason why life may be judged to be trivial although at certain moments it seems to us so beautiful is that we form our judgment, ordinarily, not on the evidence of life itself but of those quite different images which preserve nothing of life-and therefore we judge it disparagingly.

Quite the ugliest face I ever saw was that of a woman whom the world called beautiful. Through its silver veil the evil and ungentle passions looked out, hideous and hateful. On the other hand, there are faces which the multitude, at first glance, pronounce homely, unattractive and such as "Nature fashions by the gross," which I always recognize with a warm heart-thrill. Not for the world would I have one feature changed; they please me as they are; they are hallowed by kind memories, and are beautiful through their associations.

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

Every form correctly seen is beautiful

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

The beauty that is there is also available for me, too. But I see a deeper beauty that isn't so readily available to others.... I don't see how studying a flower ever detracts from its beauty. It only adds

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

The man who only loves beautiful things is dreaming, whereas the man who knows absolute beauty is wide awake.

His expression was infused with lust and adoration as he lowered his head to kiss her throat, his tongue venturing into the little spaces between the diamonds and round opals. “Why can’t you see yourself as I see you?” -Jack to Amanda

Because words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes.

A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.

External beauty is a bizarre thing to me.

My work isn't about form. It's about seeing.

When I revealed the campaign, some lady in the front row, a photographer, asked "is that airbrushed?" So I just lifted my shirt up and my stomach was the exact same thing as in the ads. It was actually kinda nice that she said that, because I'm sure plenty of people probably thought that. That's one of the reasons I did it - especially when you work so hard to get your body to look like that - it's frustrating.

It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.