The truth of the matter is beauty is a specific thing rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens 20s and 30s and then lose it most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.

Now I'm not saying I'm fashionable but there are sociological interests that matter to me things that are theoretical political intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion.

I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied.

I don't get anything for free. I pay for all my beauty treatments.

Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly well-ordered or confused.

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body books feed the mind beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler not an Ezra a Walt a thing of beauty a joy forever.

I mean no one asks beauty secrets of me or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.

I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.

A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.

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.

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.

Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

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

Beauty opened all the doors it got me things I didn't even know I wanted and things I certainly didn't deserve.

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder ' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look including inside ourselves.

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

Everybody know I don't do no promoting. I don't ever have to promote nothing that's the beauty of Lil Wayne.

This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.

Abstraction brings the world into more complex variable relations it can extract beauty alternative topographies ugliness and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.