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“What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”

May Order Beauty Skins Essence Bases Clean Unity Ugly Bones Skin Deep Beauty Is Skin Deep Beauty Is Only Skin Deep Beauty Skin Deep

Author:Dorothy Parker

“Looking for the essence of beauty is comprehending and appreciating that quality in an object which is fairer and better than only what our eyes see or our ears hear, whether that be a patch of blue in an overcast sky, the fleeting laughter from a voice we love, or something as unexpected as the rainbow colors in a spot of oil on the driveway.”

Eye Voice Quality Beauty Sky Objects Color Laughter Appreciate Essence Ears Blue Oil Spots Unexpected Rainbow Fleeting Patches Comprehending Driveway Overcast Essence Of Beauty

Book:You Bring the Confetti

Source: You Bring the Confetti

“The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty apprehended from without, I still call love.”

Stills Ends Love Is Beauty Evidence Essence Attributes Inward Essence Of Beauty

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)

“It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.”

Should Looks May Beauty Crime Essence Vices Depravity

Book:Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

“That which is required in order to the attainment of accurate conclusions respecting the essence of the Beautiful is nothing morethan earnest, loving, and unselfish attention to our impressions of it.”

Beautiful Order Attention Beauty Essence Impression Conclusion Accurate Earnest Attainment Unselfish

Book:Modern Painters ...: pt. 3. Of the imaginative and theoretic faculties. 4th ed

Source: Modern Painters ...: pt. 3. Of the imaginative and theoretic faculties. 4th ed

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”

Want Love Life Action Romance Fear Waiting Beauty Courage Our Lives Depression Essence Novelists Dragons Princess Helpless Our Love Overcoming Fear Fright

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“We ordinary people must forge our own beauty. We must set fire to the greyness of our labor with the art of our own lives ... What is the essence of this art of living? Of course, even this art should have beauty as its essence.”

People Should Art Courses Beauty Fire Ordinary Labor Should Have Essence Ordinary People Art Of Living Essence Of Beauty

Author:Kenji Miyazawa

“Beauty kindles love, and only the one who remains captivated by it, only the one who is intoxicated by it, only the one who remains a lover while he is investigating its essence, can hope to penetrate its essence.”

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Author:Dietrich von Hildebrand

“Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?”

Humans Stills Soul Artist Challenges Beauty Subjects Skins Essence Surface Attractive Still Life

Author:Richard Corliss