Beauty Quotes

What is beautiful? These quotes go beyond appearances to explore wonder, aesthetics, and awe.

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"All my life I have had a dreadful need for beautiful things."
Vincent van Gogh
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"I believe in low lights and smoke."
Andy Warhol
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"Edie was the most beautiful woman I ever saw."
Andy Warhol
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"I think people are beautiful, but only some of the time."
Andy Warhol
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"Beauty in diversity is the beauty of humanity."
Yair Lapid
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"Beauty is in the eye and heart of the beholder."
Yair Lapid
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"Beauty is the purgation of superfluities."
Michelangelo Buonarroti
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"The perfection of form and beauty is contained in the human body."
Michelangelo Buonarroti
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"Beauty lies not in the face, but in the structure that supports it."
Michelangelo Buonarroti
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"The form of beauty is eternal; only the expression changes."
Michelangelo Buonarroti
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"My eyebrows are like the wings of a blackbird that wanted to fly."
Frida Kahlo
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"I paint flowers so that they will not die, beauty so it will persist."
Frida Kahlo
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"The eye which truly sees is the eye which contemplates beauty."
Leonardo da Vinci
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"Beauty is the purification of excess."
Leonardo da Vinci
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"The sadness will last forever, and that is the beauty of it."
Vincent van Gogh
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"The greatest beauty is found in simplicity, not complexity."
Vincent van Gogh
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"The beauty of democracy is that it allows for peaceful change."
Yair Lapid
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"The beauty of humanity is its capacity for change."
Yair Lapid
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"It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and to corrupt aesthetic enjoyment."
Salvador Dalí
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"Beauty will be convulsive or it will not be."
Salvador Dalí
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"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful."
Andy Warhol
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"Jade Jagger is beautiful, but a beauty queen."
Andy Warhol
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"The beauty of a work lies in its struggle."
Michelangelo Buonarroti
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"Beauty is the purification of excess."
Michelangelo Buonarroti
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"Beauty exists within every rough stone; one must only know how to see it."
Michelangelo Buonarroti
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"Beauty is found not in what is perfect, but in what is honestly human."
Frida Kahlo
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"A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not."
Leonardo da Vinci
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"The beautiful things we perceive by sense are not beautiful in themselves, but derive their beauty from the divine light."
Leonardo da Vinci
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"Beauty in nature reminds us of something eternal and unchanging."
Yair Lapid
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"Beauty is found in authenticity, not in perfection."
Yair Lapid