Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
The mirror is the worst judge of true beauty.
-Sophia Nam
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
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"
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
