Quotes about beauty
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“The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves.”

“There is nothing more beautiful than a beautiful woman.”
Agnelli: The Rules of the Game, Vanity Fair (1991)

Alex Jones: The "Justin Biebler" Rant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDMB0KyhPN8, 21 February 2011.
2011

September 30, 1974. South Bend, IN. Notre Dame Ath Center.
Source: http://www.elvisconcerts.com/real/oct74-01.htm
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEZpSFnDxRg

Louisville, Kentucky http://www.kidbrothers.net/words/concert-transcripts/louisville-kentucky-jun2594.html (June 25, 1994)
In Concert

Me & Rumi (2004)

Quoted in MTV Justin Bieber: "Girls Look Better Without Make-Up" http://www.mtv.co.uk/news/justin-bieber/202740-justin-bieber, April 2010

“Lesson one: If you're ever in a beautiful cathedral, take your hat off!”
From "The Diary of Billy Talent":

<span class="plainlinks"> Children http://www.occupypoetry.net/children_1/</span>
From Poetry

SHOWstudio Interview. In Camera with Lady Gaga 30 May 2010. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmcxdZQCnT4&feature=PlayList&p=6DB0E6483F09B62E&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1.

“Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!”
Starement of 3 August 1867, as quoted in An Encyclopedia of Quotations about Music (1981) by Nat Shapiro, p. 115

Quote from Bevridge translation of the Baburnama https://archive.org/stream/baburnama017152mbp#page/n663/mode/2up

“O this world is beautiful because of you! To love somebody means that we're closer to God.”
O diese Welt ist schön durch dich! Die Liebe zu einem Menschen führt uns Gott näher.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)

Source: Odes, CXLIII, in Hafiz of Shiraz: Selections from his Poems, translated from the Persian, by Herman Bicknell (1875), p. 197; quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 59
My Twisted World (2014), 19-22, UC Santa Barbara, Racial Superiority
I ended up walking for two hours, and at the end of it I was crying to myself because I felt so sad.
My Twisted World (2014), Thoughts at 19, Longing

30 December 1850
Journal Intime (1882), Journal entries
Context: Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul each feeling has, as it were, its flowering instant, its one and only moment of expansive grace and radiant kingship. Each star passes but once in the night through the meridian over our heads and shines there but an instant; so, in the heaven of the mind each thought touches its zenith but once, and in that moment all its brilliancy and all its greatness culminate. Artist, poet, or thinker, if you want to fix and immortalize your ideas or your feelings, seize them at this precise and fleeting moment, for it is their highest point. Before it, you have but vague outlines or dim presentiments of them. After it you will have only weakened reminiscence or powerless regret; that moment is the moment of your ideal.

In a 2009 interview
Quoted in "Soleimani, a General Who Became Iran Icon by Targeting US" https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/01/02/world/middleeast/ap-ml-iran-qassem-soleimani.html. The Associated Press

Jaya Bharata Jananiya Tanujate (1930)

2022, "We will not give up anything. And we will fight for every meter of our land" (30 March 2022)

“The beauty of art is in our imperfection.”
Source: Radiorama de Occidente. "La Otra Historia". 1480 Rock and Pop AM. Guadalajara. Mexico.

Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain”
Song lyrics, Time Out of Mind (1997), Not Dark Yet

I had barely got to the end of the sentence when she closed her eyes and gently slipped away. She was unique, and the world is a better place for having known her. I love you, Linda. note: Last words to his wife, Linda, as recounted by McCartney in a statement released to the press three days after her death
Source: as quoted in "Linda's Death 'Heartbreak' for McCartney" https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=99480655 by Emma Ross, Tucson Citizen (April 21, 1998), p. B1

“Dream beautiful dreams and then work to make those dreams come true.”

“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.”

Source: The Alchemy of Finance

“Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.”

“I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.”

“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.”
Letter to Rene Lui Descartes XIV (6 March 1540) As quoted in Character Sketches: Or, The Blackboard Mirror (1890) by George Augustus Lofton, p. 432.

“I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.”

“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”

Letter to the minister of a church in Brooklyn (20 November 1950), p. 95. The minister had earlier written Einstein asking if he would send him a signed version of a quote about the Catholic church attributed to Einstein in Time magazine (see the "Misattributed" section below), and Einstein had written back to say the quote was not correct, but that he was "gladly willing to write something else which would suit your purpose". According to the book, the minister replied "saying he was glad the statement had not been correct since he too had reservations about the historical role of the Church at large", and said that "he would leave the decision to Einstein as to the topic of the statement", to which Einstein replied with the statement above.
Attributed in posthumous publications, Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
Context: The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. To make this a living force and bring it to clear consciousness is perhaps the foremost task of education. The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.
Source: Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life

“Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.”
Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding

Source: Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

“Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.”

Source: Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self

“Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful”

“You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.”

“We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.”
“I glanced up at him. "I love things that are beautiful when you don't expect them to be.”
Source: The Back Door of Midnight

Source: The Sense of Wonder (1965)
Context: Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the vexations or concerns of their personal lives, their thoughts can find paths that lead to inner contentment and to renewed excitement in living. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.”
Variant: I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.
As quoted in The Leader's Digest : Timeless Principles for Team and Organization (2003) by Jim Clemmer, p. 84

As quoted in Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book (1923) by Elbert Hubbard, p. 62

“You shall create beauty not to excite the senses
but to give sustenance to the soul.”

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt without an original source in her writings, for example in the introduction to It Seems to Me : Selected Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt (2001) by Leonard C. Schlup and Donald W. Whisenhunt, p. 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=UeFWjTMcLZYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q&f=false. But archivists have not been able to find the quote in any of her writings, see the comment from Ralph Keyes in The Quote Verifier above.
Disputed

First Elegy (as translated by Stephen Mitchell)
Source: Duino Elegies (1922)
Context: Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'
hierarchies? and even if one of them
pressed me against his heart: I would be consumed
in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing
but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure,
and we are so awed because it serenely disdains
to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.

“she was consumed by 3 simple things:
drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more:
youth and beauty”
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.”

“I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

Said to one of his students, according to "Chopin: Pianist and Teacher: As Seen by His Pupils" by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger

Speech in the Reichstag (6 April 1916), quoted in W. M. Knight-Patterson, Germany. From Defeat to Conquest 1913-1933 (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1945), p. 75
1910s

"The Theory of Numbers," Nature (Sep 16, 1922) Vol. 110 https://books.google.com/books?id=1bMzAQAAMAAJ p. 381

“Like beauty, stardom too is skin-deep.”
From interview with Komal Nahta

As quoted by Jerry Rubin in recounting his visit with Manson in We Are Everywhere (1971)

Socrates' prayer, Phaedrus, 279
Plato, Phaedrus

The Psychology of the Unconscious (1943)

Daniel Robert Epstein (Oct 12, 2004), " John Kricfalusi, interview http://suicidegirls.com/interviews/John%20Kricfalusi/", SuicideGirls, retrieved 2011-03-01

as quoted in Khushwant Singh, The Freethinker's Prayer Book (2013), p. 35