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Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We do not recognize our own beauty because we are too busy comparing ourselves to other people.

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.

Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.

I have actually spent a lot of time researching beauty products, how they are produced and how they are sold.

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

I am not one of those women who thinks beauty is a curse.

A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.

I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

The very definition of beauty is outside.

I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

Now, I am not saying I am fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion.

What sort of sap Does not know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?

Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.

The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it most of us have it not at all. And that is perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you do not seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.