“Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offense returning, to regain Love once possess’d. John Milton
“Oh, she is coming, the dancer of the future… more glorious than any woman who has yet been: more beautiful than the Egyptian, than the early Italian, than all women of past centuries—the highest intelligence in the freest body!Isadora Duncan
“Beautiful… as the fortuitous encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table.Comte de Lautréamont
“In almost every artist nature is inborn a wanton and treacherous proneness to side with the beauty that breaks hearts, to single out aristocratic pretensions and pay them homage.Thomas Mann