Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
Quotations
Beauty
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
"Duino Elegies"
Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty; follow the straight line, thou shalt see the curved line ever follow thee.
-William Maccall
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
-Coco Chanel
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
