„For Genet, Beauty will be the offensive weapon that will enable him to beat the just on their own ground: that of value.“

— Jean Paul Sartre

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„Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.“
— Platón
„I begin to get a little acquainted with my own strength and weakness. Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.“
— John Keats
„The beautiful exists just as little as the true. In every case it is a question of the conditions of preservation of a certain type of man: thus the herd-man will experience the value feeling of the true in different things than will the overman.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„all girls are beautiful in their own way“
— Marilyn Monroe