A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

I think it speaks of all women having those few special things that make them feel feminine. And so when I was a little girl, I would associate Guerlain with that.

The art is long, life is short.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

There are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can’t really understand why it doesn’t obsess everyone – I think it does really, I’m just a little more out about it.

Whenever something went wrong when I was young – if I had a pimple or if my hair broke – my mom would say, ‚Sister mine, I’m going to make you some soup.‘ And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, ‚What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?‘ And, ‚How does creativity apply across the board?‘

Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

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

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

My lips, I’ve used collagen. I line my lips with collagen.

Girls are soft and pretty.

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

You don’t need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

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

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That’s how the human species has done as well as it has.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

If anyone thinks they’d rather be in a different part of history, they’re probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You’d probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.

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

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.