Beauty is whatever gives joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
Quotations
Beauty
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
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
Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.
-Alex Flinn
"Beastly"
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
