James Redfield Quotes

Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful.

I think it is no small attraction in a painter to be able to give a pleasing air to his figures, and whoever is not naturally possessed of this grace may acquire it by study, as opportunity offers in the following manner: be on the watch to take good parts of many beautiful faces of which the beautiful parts are established by general repute rather than by your own judgement, for you may deceive yourself by selecting faces that resemble your own, since it often seems that such similarities please us; ... so therefore choose the beautiful ones as I tell you and fix them in your mind.

Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.

Just wear what you think looks beautiful.

The beautiful is always bizarre.

He's probably the world's most beautiful looking man, yet he doesn't think he's that gorgeous. And to me, he's just smelly, farty Leo.

Liking is not always the child of beauty; but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.

I love colorful things. I think the world is so beautiful because of all the different colors. With my feed, I really like it to be a rainbow effect, very colorful and vibrant, and just showing happy moments.

A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation, prior to all consideration of the mechanical proportions of the features and head.

I know a girl who just looks at her face in the medicine cabinet mirror and never looks below her shoulders, and she's four or five hundred pounds but she doesn't see all that, she just sees a beautiful face and therefore she thinks she's a beauty. And therefore, I think she's a beauty, too, because I usually accept people on the basis of their self-images, because their self-images have more to do with the way they think than their objective-images do.

Such as ne'er saw swans May think crows beautiful.

I don't think I am beautiful. I can look good and I can look ugly.

It is not that which is beautiful that pleases us, but that which pleases is is called beautiful.

Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.

Elizabeth Taylor is not beautiful, she is pretty—I was beautiful.

She's beautiful,' he murmured. 'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia. 'That is her style of beauty,' said Winston.

What beauty brings is huge. It brings great privilege, great power and potential to do many things. If you are beautiful, doors open for you; people smile at you; you are accepted in places where others aren't. So the relationship that people have with beauty, in a sense, is almost deforming.

Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.

Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture.

Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.

I initially thought you were ugly, but then you walked closer to me and I realized you were pretty.

Beauty is objectified pleasure.

The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.

I want to make clothes that make women feel beautiful.

Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful.