Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
One man’s justice is another’s injustice; one man’s beauty, another’s ugliness; one man’s wisdom, another’s folly.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
