Top 1200 Beauty Myth Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.

The garden [of Eden] is the realm of pure beauty from which man is expelled when he becomes interested in ethics, in the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The return into paradise, the homecoming, depends on him penetrating the veils of morality to glimpse again the lineaments of lost beauty.

There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.

What the canons of beauty transmit is an idea of taking care of yourself. Eating well, living healthily, doing sports. It's a way to highlight the natural beauty in each of us. The natural body that all of us are born with.

When you look upon another human being and feel great love toward them, or when you contemplate beauty in nature and something within you responds deeply to it, close your eyes for a moment and feel the essence of that love or that beauty within you, inseparable from who you are, your true nature. The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can never leave you, although all outer forms will.

it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty

People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Without the proper care, there's no beauty. Without beauty, there's no boyfriend.

There's this myth that has been exacerbated by others that Starbucks means a $4 cup of coffee, which is not true.

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence.

I don't want to say I'm closing the doors to this possibility completely. It's just that I'm very passionate about my acting and being a beauty queen takes time. I'd have to prepare physically. I'd have to perfect my walk. And since I'm no beauty queen, this requires a lot of training.

When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.

I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.

Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

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.

I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever.

To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

The beauty of love. The love of beauty. The greener you are, the wiser you will be.

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.

News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.

The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.

Beauty can be as dangerous as evil can be beautiful. But that is just another aspect of the double edge of non-moral values. Both beauty and friends can be dangerous. If you want to avoid them on these grounds, be my guest. But I wonder what your life will then be like.

An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom.

You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.

One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.

Beauty is everywhere and it comes in all different forms. Many times I don't find a size zero girl amazing, I find her really shockingly thin or small, and I think that beauty comes in all different forms. Beauty is about how you feel. There are plenty of people who are amazing to look at who are super beautiful, and then there are plenty of people who are easy to look at who are not beautiful at all, they open their mouth or they have an attitude or they are cruel, and they look hideous suddenly.

Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.

Comics deal with fundamental archetypes. We've been called the myth-makers of the modern age.

She represents love, beauty, purity, the ideal female and the moon...and she's the mystère of jealousy, vengeance and discord, AND, on the other hand, of love, perpetual help, goodwill, health, beauty and fortune.

Once a bustling logging town, Sandpoint has embraced its natural beauty to become an amazing resort town drawing people near and far to enjoy its beauty and recreational possibilities. It's truly a small town with a huge backyard.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn't let you admire it. The sort of beauty that always hurt.

Beauty does not lie in the face. It lies in the harmony between a person and his or her industry. Beauty is expression. When I paint a mother I try to render her beautiful by the mere look she gives her child.

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history.

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.

The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.

We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature.

Myth-making is absolutely necessary to create the simplified images that people live off.

Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.

Myth: There's conflict between selfish free markets and a benevolent world of human sympathy.

Living through art is a better way to live - not necessarily making art, but being surrounded by art. I think it's just as banal as trying to show my version of the beauty in the world. It's about beauty at the end of the day.

It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district; that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

Western beauty is considered the dominant beauty in the world. Tall, blond, blue eyes. I always felt a little self-conscious because I wanted to be more Caucasian. I tried to get bigger eyes... I would dress preppy.

God's love causes the beauty of what He loves, our love is caused by the beauty of what we love.

Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway.

Total intimacy is a myth; that said, a particular kind of loneliness can be both beautiful and fruitful.

Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us.

But it's also another myth to think that you should be as tight as a drum and not have any frailties or fragilities.

... to find beauty in everyone you must see beauty in everyone, then announce that you see it, for in announcing it, you place it there in their reality.

Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty.

I'd like to dispel the myth that when you put a wedding ring on a woman, her brain stops.

If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing. In fact, most of my work is concerned with destroying—or at least deconstructing—conventional ideas of beauty, of the generic appeal of the beautiful, glamorous, bourgeois woman. Fashion fosters clichés of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.

I've always loved King Kong. He's like a modern-day myth, an icon of the cinema.