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I'm trying to get at something a little transcendent between humans. But at the same time, there's all that baggage: What's beautiful about humans is what's balanced by what's kind of ugly and petty and depressing.

Something in the human psyche confuses beauty with the right to be loved. The briefest glance at human folly reveals that good looks and worthiness operate independently. Yet countless socializing forces, from Aunt Clara to the latest perfume ad, reinforce beliefs like 'If I were pretty enough, I would be loved.'

We all have to find beauty within us, as opposed to just our exterior.

Things are beautiful or ugly only in time and space. The new man's vision being liberated from these two factors, all is unified in one unique beauty.

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.