A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.
Beauty and folly are old companions.
A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.
There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.
A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.
A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx.
Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.