24 Beautiful Beauty and Fashion Quotations

Inside the minds of some of history's most important purveyors of beauty... turns out, aesthetics aren't everything.

“No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.” - Oscar Wilde

“Beauty has a lot to do with character.” - Kevyn Aucoin

“Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.”  - Kevyn Aucoin

"No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink." - Murray Banks

"When in doubt, wear red." - Bill Blass

"The truly fashionable are beyond fashion." - Cecil Beaton

"Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions." - CoCo Chanel

"Fashion can be bought.  Style one must possess."  - Edna Woolman Chase

“Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly."  - Epictetus

"It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting." - Jean Paul Gaultier

"Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat."  - Sydney J. Harris

“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” - Audrey Hepburn

“There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.”  - Audrey Hepburn

"Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind.  You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head."  - Garrison Keillor

"A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful."  - Karl Kraus

"Beauty - in projection and perceiving - is 99.9% attitude."  - Grey Livingston

“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.” - Sophia Loren

"I don't know who invented the high heel, but all men owe him a lot."  - Marilyn Monroe

“For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.” - Ivan Panin

"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."  - Leo Tolstoy

"The finest clothing made is a person's skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this."  - Mark Twain

"I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change."  - Gianni Versace

"One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art." - Oscar Wilde