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“True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are accustomed to think.”

Thinking Mind Persons Faces Beauty Moral Expression Depends Features Accustomed True Beauty

Author:Arthur Frederick Saunders

“Expression is the mystery of beauty.”

Beauty Mystery Expression

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the true idea it contains, art has become almost uniquely feminine. Beauty is woman, and also art is woman.”

Art Ideas Form Beauty Expression Materials Elements Understood Art Is Feminine Feminine Beauty Women Beauty

Author:Remy de Gourmont

“I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.”

Stills Eye Beautiful Imagination Beauty Opinion Expression Ears Mere Senses

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.”

Beauty Expression Currents Aesthetics Romanticism

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“There is nothing truly beautiful but that which can never be of any use whatsoever; everything useful is ugly, for it is the expression of some need, and man's needs are ignoble and disgusting like his own poor and infirm nature. The most useful place in a house is the water-closet.”

Men Needs Use Beautiful House Water Poor Beauty Expression Ugly Disgusting Closets Ignoble

Author:Theophile Gautier

“Our minds can go no further. The human imagination is capable of no further expression of beauty than the carved owl of Athene, the archaic, marble serpent, the arrogant selfish head of the Acropolis Apollo.”

Mind Humans Imagination Beauty Expression Capable Selfish Arrogant Apollo Marble Serpent Owl Human Imagination Acropolis

Book:Collected Poems 1912-1944

Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944

“And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.”

Passion Beauty Grace Inspire Expression Hook Tire Bait

Book:Nature and Other Essays

Source: Nature and Other Essays

“Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades and dies almost in the very moment of its maturity; yet there is, methinks, a kind of beauty which lives even to old age; a beauty that is not in the features, but, if I may be allowed the expression, shines through them. As it is not merely corporeal it is not the object of mere sense, nor is it to be discovered but by persons of true taste and refined sentiment.”

Ifs Kind May Persons Said Moments Age Dies Beauty Objects Expression Flower Taste Shining Mere Old Age Features Maturity Sentiments Fades Literal Refined

Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

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

Love Kind Matter Beauty Expression No Matter What Smile Glad Inner Beauty True Beauty Gladness Her Beauty Short Beauty

Author:Anne Roiphe

“The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.”

Mean Art Country Facts Use Form Beauty Progress Expression Authority Preventing Degrade Free Expression

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)

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

“It is only to the finest natures that age gives an added beauty and distinction; for the most persistent self has then worked its way to the surface, having modified the expression, and to some extent, the features, to its own likeness.”

Way Giving Self Age Beauty Expression Surface Features Distinction Finest Persistent

Author:Karl Blind

“Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.”

Beauty Alive Expression Rapture

Book:The Power of Myth

Source: The Power of Myth

“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.”

Giving Trying Looks Children Persons Doe Beautiful Faces Lying Mother Beauty Expression Industry Harmony Mere Paint

Author:Jean-Francois Millet