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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.

— Claude Debussy

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

— Tadao Ando

Beauty is a combination of qualities. I don't think one can deny that certain people or things feel aesthetically pleasing. But without an equally pleasing being behind that form, there is no beauty there.

— Teri Hatcher

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 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, by way of fashion, has to do with confidence, with flattering silhouettes, with patterns, with proper fit for body type, and with an abundance of self-love!

— Mary Lambert

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

— Jane Seymour

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

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

— Shay Mitchell

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— James Redfield