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.

There’s no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don’t try to adapt it, make it commercial.

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

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

The good is the beautiful.

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question: does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life?

There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

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.

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

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

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.

If merely ‚feeling good‘ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

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.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

When I’m on stage, it’s really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say it all the right way. It’s funny how different it looks and how it’s happening. There are three Fellini circuses in my head, and outwardly it looks like I’m going to get a bagel.

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.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

Girls are soft and pretty.

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Young people can create beautiful things.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.