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.

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.

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

I love designing at the moment, I’m so happy with my work.

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.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Young people can create beautiful things.

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

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

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

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year.

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

Girls are soft and pretty.

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

If you are in the country, you should notice landmarks – that is, objects which help you to find your way or prevent you getting lost, such as distant hills, church towers, and nearer objects, such as peculiar buildings, trees, gates, rocks, etc.

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.

I can’t even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it’s so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Marley is on the radio every single day. It’s very reggae-influenced down there. Basically, you haven’t been to paradise if you haven’t been to Hawaii.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they’re not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.

The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

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.

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.

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

I put cocoa butter all over my face and my iconic belly and my arms and legs. Why live rough? Live smooth.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

When we build, let us think that we build for ever.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

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

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

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

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

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

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

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

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

Why should man’s first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

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.