I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

It is conventional to call "monster" any blending of dissonant elements. I call "monster" every original inexhaustible beauty.

I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

In art economy is always beauty.

You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

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.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.