Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
Quotations
Beauty
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
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
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
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"
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
-Coco Chanel
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
