A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty the contemplation of mystery or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity modesty and humility a gracious temper and calmness of spirit and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Beauty without expression is boring.
I can't live without my beauty products. I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit morning noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers using my body scrubs and lotions.
Without realizing it the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
I define nothing. Not beauty not patriotism. I take each thing as it is without prior rules about what it should be.
I can't believe the pro-choicers attitude toward unborn children-to me it's the ultimate liberal cause to defend those without a voice.
We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.
It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that whatever the fate of the proposition may be our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable.
No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.
I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.
Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color perm without setting which had never been done before.
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change happiness like a child must be allowed to grow up.
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
If you don't get noticed you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed but the art is in getting noticed naturally without screaming or without tricks.
Form your life humanly and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation and without being allowed the preliminary trials the failures and botches that are essential for training.
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.
Art is much less important than life but what a poor life without it.
Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.
And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG there's something funny about it.