Beauty Quotes

How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and freedom born of a living relationship with Christ!

~ Pope Benedict Xvi

You don't have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don't need any special equipment - that's the beauty of it.

~ Michelle Obama

What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry and in great musical or singing performances. There is beauty everywhere if you can just see it.

~ Andrea Bocelli

It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?

~ Robin Wright

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

~ James Russell Lowell

Poetry offers works of art that are beautiful, like paintings, which are my second favorite work of the art, but there are also works of art that embody emotion and that are kind of school for feeling. They teach how to feel, and they do this by the means of their beauty of language.

~ Donald Hall

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

~ Manuel Puig

Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They're not afraid of the beauty, which is nice.

~ Eva Herzigova

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.

~ Murray Kempton

I feel truth, beauty, love, grief, anger, intimacy & alive in my body... Women in the global south live in their bodies much more than we in the global north. Not as distracted by patriarchy's controlling images - They know power is in their bodies. I am deeply grateful for the women who showed me the way home.

~ Jodie Evans

The Clash had a unique, special relationship with Scotland. Perhaps it was something to do with the energy, anger and beauty in their music. In Scotland at that time, there was a lot of to be angry about. And a great need of some energy and beauty.

~ John Niven

Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.

~ Moshe Safdie

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

~ Camille Paglia

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

~ Henry Drummond

With the mining sites, I found a subject matter that carried forth my fascination with the undoing of the landscape, in terms of both its formal beauty and its environmental politics.

~ David Maisel

Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty.

~ Adam Schiff

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

~ Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Ariel may look a lot like Barbie, and her adventure may be limited to romance and over with the wedding bells, but unlike, say, Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty, she's active, brave and determined, the heroine of her own life. She even rescues the prince. And that makes her a rare fish, indeed, in the world of preschool culture.

~ Katha Pollitt