“Between skin and skin, there is only light.”
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As quoted in El Punt (28 January 2012). "La teva cara em sona" http://www.elpuntavui.cat/noticia/article/5-cultura/19-cultura/500466-la-teva-cara-em-sona.html

“What a charming girl! And what a skin! She positively radiated light around her.”
Source: undated quotes, Renoir – his life and work, 1975, p. 150 : Recalling the model Jeanne Samary.

“The saying that beauty is but skin deep is but a skin-deep saying.”
Vol. 2, Ch. XIV, Personal Beauty
Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative (1891)

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”

“Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.”
Source: Following the Equator (1897), Ch. XLI

“The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.”

“While skin and race are often synonymous, skin cleansing is good, race cleansing is bad.”
"A Mock Columnist, Amok", in The New York Times (14 October 2007)