In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
Quotations
Beauty
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are
-Ellen DeGeneres
"Seriously...I'm Kidding"
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.
-Vik Muniz
What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?
-Marty Rubin
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
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"
