Beauty Quotes

I pretty much borrow my entire beauty regime from my mom.
– Rashida Jones
I played with the same band for years and years and there's a beauty to having one solid core that you keep exploring. On the other hand, it's nice to throw yourself in different situations where you find out things about your own resources.
– Grant-Lee Phillips
I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.
– Shirley MacLaine
I mean the beauty of being a writer is it's not like being a swimmer. When they were talking about our Olympic swimmers and they'd say, 'Oh she's so old,' and she's all of 25 or something. So the beauty for a writer is that you can keep doing it right into your dotage, and I hope to be able to keep doing it as long as I can get away with it, yeah.
– Geraldine Brooks
I maintain my inner beauty by trying to lead a balanced life in general. I try to eat healthy foods, but... that doesn't mean I won't treat myself now and then! I work out almost every day, which gives me more energy and helps me feel stronger. I also try to be a genuinely good person to the people around me.
– Erica Durance
I love the game, it's the greatest game on earth, that's why I can't understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.
– Eric Davis
I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'
– Jerry Saltz
I love my beauty. It's not my fault.
– Valentino Garavani
I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair.
– Dita Von Teese
I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film, which is bad because it's how I make my living, but I am not a beauty and on balance I am glad.
– Felicity Huffman
I live by the philosophy that beauty starts from within, and I make a conscious effort to fill my body with nutrients through the food I eat.
– Miranda Kerr
I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.
– Jung Chang
I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.'
– Victoria Legrand
I like to embrace natural beauty. I try to get at least 8 hours of sleep, drinking a lot of water and exercising.
– Tia Mowry
I like to dedicate myself wholeheartedly to a cause so that I have more impact. My goal is to shed light on the beauty of the ocean and how important it is for our planet.
– Hayden Panettiere
I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world.
– Diane Kruger
I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
– Manuel Puig
I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.
– Janis Ian
I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.
– Rachel Stevens
I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements.
– Mireille Enos
I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' the only one I could get tickets for, and then 'Les Miserables' and then 'Chicago.'
– America Ferrera
I just want to continue to break barriers and to show the industry and the world that beauty is diverse, and you don't have to be a certain stereotype to be beautiful.
– Joan Smalls
I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who aren't exposed to creative music.
– Charlie Haden
I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.
– Octavia Spencer
I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
– Albrecht Durer
I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete.
– Linda Evangelista
I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.
– Renee Vivien
I have learned that acting is not about beauty.
– Vincent Cassel
I have girls who are concerned about how they look compared to models or what have you. It's my responsibility to teach them that beauty is more than superficial.
– Martina McBride
I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.
– Sylvia Kristel
I have a real passion for many aspects of home lifestyle and beauty.
– Rachel Roy
I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice.
– Luis Figo
I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.
– Lisa Bonet
I have a book out called 'The Beauty Equation' and it discusses how off track we have gone in considering beauty.
– Nigel Barker
I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.
– Bill Griffith
I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.
– Pam Grier
I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
– Brigitte Bardot
I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.
– Narada Michael Walden
I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy a strength a secret cup of gladness.
– Ossie Davis
I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
– Alexander McQueen
I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.
– Don DeLillo
I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night.
– Mariel Hemingway
I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.
– Olivia Colman
I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.
– Miley Cyrus
I don't know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It's more than talent and beauty. Maybe it's the audience seeing itself in you.
– Joan Blondell
I don't have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop.
– Jenifer Lewis
I don't get anything for free. I pay for all my beauty treatments.
– Jennifer Lopez
I don't believe in one ideal beauty.
– Zac Posen
I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.
– Mary MacLane
I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.
– Wallace Stevens
I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.
– Jeff Vandermeer
I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.
– Jane Smiley
I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.
– Meryl Streep
I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.
– Lauren Graham
I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It's never good to add to anybody else's suffering. It's an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of - dealing with dignity.
– Margaret Cho
I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!
– Gail Simmons
I can't live without my beauty products. I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions.
– Traci Bingham
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
– Charles Baudelaire
I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.
– Alexander Alekhine
I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.
– Whitney Houston
I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.
– Janelle Monae
I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.
– Vladimir Kramnik
I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.
– Elliott Erwitt
I am thrilled to be able to bring my vision of beauty to others who may be inspired by it.
– Carol Alt
I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied.
– Robert Mapplethorpe
I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
– Ben Okri
I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
– Emile Zola
I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didn't have a nose job and money and if you weren't thin, you weren't cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasn't pretty enough to be on television.
– Lea Michele
I am a thing of beauty.
– Frank Sinatra
I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.
– Jacqueline Bisset
I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
– Imelda Marcos
I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.
– Miuccia Prada
I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.
– Marc Jacobs
I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
– Fan Binbing
I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
– James Dean
Hold fast to youth and beauty.
– Elizabeth Arden
Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.
– Rose Byrne
Her beauty didn't do her any good and she couldn't use it in any positive way or manipulative way. I just hope that people will look and see and believe in that hope of love, that hope of freedom, even if it was just for a limited time.
– Diane Kruger
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
– Dante Alighieri
Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that.
– Cindy Margolis
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.
– William Shenstone
Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
– John Philip Sousa
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
– Joseph Joubert
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
– Friedrich Schiller
For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith.
– Richard Morris
For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.
– David Rittenhouse
For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.
– Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
– Oscar Niemeyer
For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.
– Vladimir Kramnik
For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.
– Thomas Mann
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
– Hunter S. Thompson
For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.
– Liam Neeson
Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
– Imelda Marcos
Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
– Imelda Marcos
Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself. Just not overweight.
– Andrej Pejic
Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.
– Miuccia Prada
Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.
– Max Bill
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
– Galileo Galilei
Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body.
– Devon Aoki
Everyone has a different beauty and different qualities and I think that women need to learn to love their qualities and be comfortable in the fact that everyone is different.
– Miranda Kerr