The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
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"
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
I don't take good pictures cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
-Ani DiFranco
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
