In LA, where I live, it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women. Alanis Morissette beautybonedecolletage Change image and share on social
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. Blaise Pascal beautycreatedispose Change image and share on social
The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive. Ralph Waite alivebeautyenhance Change image and share on social
Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty. Dodie Smith beautydeathhorror Change image and share on social
Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit. Vera Farmiga beautybrightlycoin share on social
We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides. Junichiro Tanizaki beautydarknessfind Change image and share on social
I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from - but it's not me. Iman beautifulbeautyconsider share on social
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread. D. H. Lawrence actualbeautybread Change image and share on social
Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all. Andre Breton beautyconvulsive Change image and share on social
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better. Oscar Wilde beautycolourjoy Change image and share on social