Beauty Quotes

“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.”

— David Hume

“Goodness is beauty in the best estate.”

— Christopher Marlowe

“When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.”

— Christy Turlington

“Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.”

— Martha Beck

“I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied.”

— Robert Mapplethorpe

“An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.”

— Charles Baudelaire

“Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

“The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was 'Beauty and the Beast.' I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it's very physical. I had headaches every day for two months.”

— Hugh Jackman

“Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.”

— Edmund Burke

“Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.”

— Ani DiFranco

“I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.”

— Studs Terkel

“The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.”

— Joan Rivers

“The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.”

— Charles Baudelaire

“I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.”

— Rachel Bilson

“Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.”

— Christina Aguilera