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Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

As a person, I'm pretty much the same except that I've come to terms with who my real friends and supporters are. I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go.

A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.

As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.

As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a town they confidently ask 25 percent more rent for a flat with a view of a park that for an identical flat with no view.

As for garden photographers, how differently they see things. With what ease the camera seems to compose a picture of great beauty with its discriminating lens. The naked eye can't censor some ugly sight on the periphery of vision; the photographer takes the perfect shot and picks for us just what we need to see.

As I hold the flower in my hand and think of trying to describe it, I realize how poor a creature I am, how impotent are words in the presence of such perfection.

Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.

As Nature is always careless and indifferent Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty.

A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

A spontaneous act of generosity, performed with unselfish grace is an example of moral beauty, as are certain acts of courage; genuine modesty is a possible example, as is selfless love. Although moral beauty is a natural gift, it is nevertheless more likely to emerge and flourish in societies that appreciate and encourage it.

As Ralph's character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That's the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul.

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

As the tall dark and handsome male star, Carey Grant always stands for male beauty and desirability, whether in a 30s screwball, a 40s film noir, or a 50s romantic comedy. He consequently turns around the orthodox gender between the one who looks and so desires, and the one who is looked at, and so is being desired.

As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and that reason is that we know well what is the object of mathematics, and that it consists in proofs, and what is the object of medicine, and that it consists in healing. But we do not know in what grace consists, which is the object of poetry.

As you awaken to your divine nature, you'll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

At the end of the day, women must understand how they look is important, but not all-important; that there are different ideas of beauty. It is in the eye of the beholder and it comes from within.

At its heart, music is all higher mathematics.

At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

A true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests, as by the atmosphere which surrounds it. Most have beauty of outline merely, and are striking as the form and bearing of a stranger; but true verses come toward us indistinctly, as the very breath of all friendliness, and envelop us in their spirit and fragrance.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

At root, a pearl is a 'disturbance' a beauty caused by something that isn't supposed to be there, about which something needs to be done. It is the interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. ... The pearl's beauty is made as a result of insult.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

A woman in the presence of a good man, a real man, loves being a woman. His strength allows her feminine heart to flourish. His pursuit draws out her beauty. And a man in the presence of a real woman loves being a man. Her beauty arouses him to play the man; it draws out his strength. She inspires him to be a hero.

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.

A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

A women's greatest asset is her beauty.

Back home the black women are all beautiful

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.

Beautiful people are forgiven more often than the rest.

Beautiful thoughts build a beautiful soul. ...There's always something beautiful to be experienced wherever you are.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait.

Beauty and sadness always go together.

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty happens to be associated with the sight of some human being, the transference of love is made possible, at any rate in an illusory manner. But it is all the beauty of the world, it is universal beauty, for which we yearn.

Beauty comes from the happiness within.

Beauty crowds me till I die. Beauty, mercy have on me! Yet if I expire to-day Let it be in sight of thee!

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.