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Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

— Gustave Courbet

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

— Gustave Courbet

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

— Nawal El Saadawi

True beauty is born through our actions and aspirations and in the kindness we offer to others.

— Alek Wek

Beauty is something we can affirm and intend to have more of.

— James Redfield

All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.

— Evelyn Underhill

Beauty arises out of human inspiration.

— Richard Dawkins

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

— George Bancroft

True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.

— Aimee Mullins

All beauty is truth, and all truth is compassionate. Few know that; fewer still can express it.

— Henry Williamson

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