Beautiful Quotes

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

~ David Rockefeller

Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If it isn't ethical, it can't be beautiful. But if it isn't beautiful, it probably shouldn't be at all.'

~ Yves Behar

My dream job would be to design a sexy maternity collection, maybe also beautiful lingerie for expecting women. It's impossible to find nice sexy lingerie anywhere for pregnant or nursing women, which is when you actually need an extra boost of confidence and feel sexy.

~ Julia Restoin Roitfeld

Design - pure beauty - will be number one at Fisker Coachbuild. We want to bring beautiful, desirable cars to the market, limit the production of each model, and do so with the highest quality.

~ Henrik Fisker

It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted.

~ Candice Olson

I have beautiful, beautiful clothes, designed by my bachelor boy son, Kenny. Kenny has a big following as it is, and even Lady Gaga has asked Kenny to design dresses for her. But Kenny isn't very keen on, well, shall we say, extreme women. He likes someone that women all over the world can identify with.

~ Barry Humphries

For me, if I can design beautiful things that have the price be lower, I am thrilled.

~ Tory Burch

I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality.

~ Annabelle Selldorf

Marriage is traditionally old-school in many respects. It is highly antiquated, and, that being said, beautiful.

~ Lake Bell

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

~ Alphonse Karr

It was Jesus who gave me peace when the shark severed my arm. I trust in Jesus whenever I'm going through a hard time. I see all the beautiful things that have come out of my situation. I'm able to share my story with young girls who have few role models, and I can help others cope with what they have been through.

~ Bethany Hamilton

People might think that my queen should be highly educated, beautiful and the best of the best. Jetsun Pema is a kind-hearted girl who is very supportive and whom I can trust. I cannot say how she might appear to the people, but to me, she is the one.

~ Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck

Gerard doesn't tell me what to do. We discuss everything as a couple, as I imagine most partners do. We have a beautiful relationship and one of mutual trust.

~ Shakira

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

~ Jean Paul

Miley Cyrus' 'Party in the USA' kills me with jealousy. The melodies are out-of-control beautiful.

~ Rivers Cuomo

I have never written a book about my life, despite being offered purses of gold. I made 'Boxes' because I wanted to make a sincere depiction of a daughter who has lost her father, or the jealousy one can feel towards a daughter who has become more beautiful than you and whose stepfather starts to take her shopping.

~ Jane Birkin

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

~ Rudyard Kipling

I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens.

~ Elton John

My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.

~ Andrew Weil

I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.

~ Elton John

There's something about beautiful moments in sports that alters our experience of time. And I'd say the same thing about poetry and gardening. Gardening slows me down. I want to stop and observe everything.

~ Ross Gay

Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself.

~ Kiesza

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.

~ Joyce Meyer

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.

~ Tila Tequila

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

~ Martha Beck

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.

~ John Erskine

Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.

~ Halle Berry

Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside.

~ Emmanuelle Beart

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

~ Paul Klee

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'goddess circle'.

~ Jennifer Aniston

I think Sydney has so much natural beauty it's just a beautiful city.

~ Flume

Looking at flowers, simple things in life. I don't need to look at gold and a castle; sometimes its very simple things that are very beautiful. I am keeping my eyes fresh to find beauty in many places, and in gold, too, sometimes!

~ Francois Nars

Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?

~ Clara Schumann

I find human beings to be so complex and full of beauty. Creativity is our way to express and challenge and flow. So, all you humans, create and flow! I'll be over here thinking you are beautiful and creepy and freaky and wonderful!

~ Angela Bettis

The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short.

~ Homaro Cantu

Plastic surgery can't make you younger or more beautiful, because beauty is in your eyes, isn't it? It's in your soul; you can't strap it on.

~ Sarah Parish

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

~ Hannah Arendt