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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

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

— Eugene Ionesco

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

Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.

— Jane Seymour

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

— Sophia Loren

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.

— Liv Tyler

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

— Nawal El Saadawi

I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.

— Denis Dutton

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