Beauty : (484)

" I mean in the community that I grew up in, you know, a very, you know, mixed, almost entirely African Diaspora community, one of the things that we were not ever supposed to say was how much self-hatred and colorism determined and guided what we would call our desire. In other words, what we would consider beautiful. " - Junot Diaz

" I know what women want. They want to be beautiful. " - Valentino Garavani

" I love shopping; I’m a jeans and a T-shirt kind of girl, but I go classy when I dress up – with a little bit of sexy. " - Adrianne Palicki

" I love having my hoop earrings. Just regular gold hoops. " - Becky G

" I see this beautiful and tragic world, and I do my best to describe it, because it’s been crushing to me since I was a kid. It seems to be how I connect. " - Ryan Adams

" I don’t know why, but I can’t get myself to like animal prints. " - Radhika Apte

" I want to photograph the considerable ceremonies of our present. I want to gather them, like somebody’s grandmother putting up preserves, because they will have been so beautiful. " - Diane Arbus

" I love my jackets and good tailoring. I love the designs and the colour. " - John Boyega

" My husband and I went to Japan for our honeymoon, and you look at, like, the presentation of the food, and it’s ridiculous. It looks like a Mondrian painting or something. Everything looks like a bunch of little Hello Kitty erasers when you eat a little bento box in Japan. It’s so precise and beautiful and processed and neat. " - Ali Wong

" There is something special about the beauty in the unclear, the ambiguity, the in-between that you can’t totally recognise. " - Alessandro Michele