Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Quotations
Beauty
Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
-Coco Chanel
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Beauty isn't just a pretty face, a beautiful body or even a cute voice. Beauty arises from your mind, your soul, and most important your personality. But most people don't seem to notice.
-Emily Gabriela Vira
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
I don't take good pictures cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
-Ani DiFranco
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
