My skin is 24 karat gold when a sun hit it.

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I’ve already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

I’m constantly trying to find new ways to get my hair out of my face.

I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one’s best physical features.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

I don’t like perfumes that are too strong or sweet. I like a fragrance that is earthy and sensual and can be worn at any time.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

The good is the beautiful.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.

When you’re 25 or 30, you know, you can’t wear lime-green eye shadow anymore.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo’s sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey’s angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don’t see what goes on underground – as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don’t see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I’ll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don’t taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

I don’t care how many beauty treatments you have, I don’t care which bag you’re carrying – you have to have a dress.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

I have two main hair people I work with. They’re always with me. I’m like, ‚I’m bored! I wanna change my hair!‘ That’s the good thing about a weave. You can do whatever with it.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Men always want and love when women wear tight and fitted clothing, right? And you’re like, ‚Wow, she looks so beautiful.‘ And then you have men who dress like slobs, and you’re like, ‚What’s the deal with these big and baggy suits.‘ It’s pretty ridiculous.

Everybody’s got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.

I love having an unlimited supply of cocoa butter.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.