Ideal Beauty Quotes

Today's beauty ideal, strictly enforced by the media, is a person with the same level of body fat as a paper clip. — Dave Barry

For you need imagination to form a notion of beauty at all, and still more to discover your ideal in an unfamiliar shape. — Joseph Conrad

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty. — Alfred De Vigny

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty; and the belief that nothing is too good to be true. — Alice Hegan Rice

If beauty on Earth is the same as elsewhere: ideal in that it is tantalizing and unsolvable, creating a delicious kind of confusion. — Matt Haig

blind love finds ideal beauty everywhere. — Anton Chekhov

Style is the shape the ideal takes, rhythm, its movement. — Victor Hugo

Beauty is in the ideal of perfect harmony which is in the Universal Being; Truth the perfect comprehension of the Universal Mind. — Rabindranath Tagore

As beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker. — Carolyn Wells

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness. — Benjamin N. Cardozo

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found. — Joan Rivers

Love in full life and length, not love ideal,
No, nor ideal beauty, that fine name,
But something better still, so very real ... — George Gordon Byron

Traditionally the Nude was used to express formulations about life as larger-than-life, as Heroic or Ideal ... The nude is not a 'genre' subject. — Isabel Bishop

The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them. — W. Somerset Maugham

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate. — Victor Hugo

Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression. — Karl Marx

I don't believe in one ideal beauty. — Zac Posen

Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; theyare truly himself. — William Blake

Beauty is the product of the dominant ideology. (Thus when ideology changes, the ideal body follows.) We can see that in the history of art. — Orlan

We must eat three meals a day, even if we're not hungry, and when we fail to fit the current ideal of beauty we must fast, even if we're starving. — Paulo Coelho

The demands of Sex Privatization contradict the demands of the Beauty Ideal, causing the severe feminine neurosis about personal appearance. — Shulamith Firestone