Love is a kind of warfare.

- Ovid

Every lover is a soldier.

- Ovid

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

- Ovid

An evil life is a kind of death.

- Ovid

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

- Ovid

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

- Ovid

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

- Confucius

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

- Thomas Mann

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

- H. R. Giger

Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.

- Luis Barragan

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

- Benjamin Britten

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

- Jacqueline Bisset