It can be said that beauty is the thing that defines fashion and separates it from the craft of clothes making, even though, even the simplest garment has an ideology behind it and is based on an aesthetic concept.
Throughout history, many artists, philosophers and other thinkers have pondered on what beauty is and what role it plays both in the life of the individual and of the community at large.
This is why we have put together a collection of great quotes about what beauty is, its function and more!
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.” – John Ruskin
“All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.” – Joseph Joubert
“There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.” – Stendhal
“Beauty is the promise of happiness.” – Stendhal
“Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.” – Coco Chanel
“I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.” – Karl Lagerfeld
“Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.” – Pearl S. Buck
“Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.” – W. Somerset Maugham
“Exuberance is Beauty.” – William Blake
“Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.” – Amit Ray
“There is no beauty in sadness.” – Katerina Stoykova Klemer
These quotes go to show that there are indeed many perspectives and views on beauty, but one thing is for sure: that beauty is a universal need, crossing the boundaries of space, time and culture.
Fraquoh and Franchomme
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