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“There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to the bodily frame, the stirring of the intellect wearing down the flesh, and the moral enthusiasm burning its way out to heaven, through the emaciation of the earthen vessel; and there is, in this indication of subduing the mortal by the immortal part, an ideal glory of perhaps a purer and higher range than that of the more perfect material form. We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak presence of Paul than of, the fair and ruddy countenance of David.”

“Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings.”

Dream Imagination Beauty Equal Longing Flesh Our Dreams

Book:Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty

Source: Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty

“Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.”

Art Beauty Dear Flesh Statues Vary Marble Dear God Nature And Art

Author:Victor Hugo

“Beauty is momentary in the mind -- The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing.”

Life Mind Body Dies Beauty Green Wave Flesh Evening Immortal Momentary Beauty Of Life Portal Tracing

Author:Wallace Stevens

“Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.”

World Beauty Flesh

Author:Florenz Ziegfeld

“I paint a woman's big rounded buttocks so that I want to reach out and stroke the dimpled flesh.”

Want Bigs Beauty Paint Flesh Reach Out Strokes Buttocks

Author:Peter Paul Rubens

“I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live and quiver.”

Looks Beauty Flesh Tiny Canvas Quiver Woman Artist

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty happens to be associated with the sight of some human being, the transference of love is made possible, at any rate in an illusory manner. But it is all the beauty of the world, it is universal beauty, for which we yearn.”

World Humans Made Soul Feelings Happens Order Human Beings Love Is Beauty Universal Sight Rate Flesh Permission Illusory Beauty Of The World Transference

Author:Simone Weil