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When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone. -- Ashley Judd
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. -- H. G. Wells
Faith is in the eye of the beholder. -- Tilda Swinton
Normal is in the eye of the beholder. -- Whoopi Goldberg
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. -- Aldous Huxley
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. -- Laurence J. Peter
Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld. -- Martha Beck
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves. -- Thornton Wilder
The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder. -- Helena Christensen
Sexiness is all in the eye of the beholder. I think it should be. Absolutely. My sex appeal, whatever it might be, isn't obvious... at least to me. -- Sharon Tate
Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist. -- Alfred Sisley
Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder. I never thought my dances sexy. I suppose that's because I see myself with my face washed, and to me I look like a rabbit. -- Gwen Verdon
People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves. -- Salma Hayek
Beauty Is in the Eyes of the Beholder! -- Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
The beauty is in the eye of the beholder. -- William Carlos Williams
Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. -- Zora Neale Hurston
Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder. -- Samuel Johnson
The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder. -- Benazir Bhutto
Truth, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder. -- Michelle Sagara
Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder. -- Gwen Verdon
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, get it out with Optrex. -- Spike Milligan
I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. -- Salma Hayek
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. -- Jonathan Swift
I think sometimes negative campaigning, like so much, is in the eye of the beholder, and I don't think we'll ever get rid of it. -- Peter Jennings
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. -- Jim Henson
An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken the beholder, but do not disturb him. -- Charles E. Burchfield
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of Beholders wrote to tell me that I've got a face like a rucksack full of dented bells. -- Charlie Brooker
Healthy is in the eye of the beholder. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
Threat is in the eye of the beholder. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. -- Oliver Platt
Great music is in the ear of the beholder. -- Noel Gallagher
Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. -- Julie Burchill
Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder. -- John Zimmerman
Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes. -- Len Wein
Mitt Romney privatizes the gains from his enterprises, but spreads the costs to the rest of us. Seems that 'free stuff' is in the eye of the beholder. -- Jennifer Granholm
An eye for beauty locks onto faces that show signs of health and fertility - just as one would predict if it had evolved to help the beholder find the fittest mate. -- Steven Pinker
I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder. -- Chuck Palahniuk
A minister of Jesus Christ should not be regardless of his attitude. If he is the representative of Jesus Christ, his deportment, his attitude, his gestures, should be of that character which will not strike the beholder with disgust. -- Ellen G. White
A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder. -- Stephen King
You know, if Kelly Clarkson wants to do country albums because that's what inspires her, then let her do it. Look at Kanye West or Ludacris... they aren't rappin' and cussin' like they were on their first few albums, so what does that make them? It's all in the eye of the beholder and the listener. We all use our outlet to grow ourself. -- Luke Bryan
Originality is in the eye of the beholder. -- Mason Cooley
True beauty cannot fail to move the beholder -- Jocelyn Murray
Pornography is in the loin of the beholder. -- Charles Rembar
Beauty lies in the LIES of the beholder! -- Ashok Kallarakkal
Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. -- Plato
Beauty is in the behind of the beholder! -- Irwin Corey
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. -- H. G. Wells
Hate speech is in the ear of the beholder. -- Mark Potok
Good art is in the wallet of the beholder. -- Kathy Lette
The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess. -- Ernst Gombrich
Most beauty lies in the LIES of the beholder! -- Ashok Kallarakkal
Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder. -- Lew Wallace
Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder, -- Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
I think optimism is in the eyes of the beholder. -- Rush Limbaugh
Be a calm beholder of what is happening around you. -- Bruce Lee
I think optimism is in the eyes of the beholder. -- Rush Limbaugh
I guess art is in the eye of the beholder. -- Kehinde Wiley
A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder -- Pablo Picasso
Beauty is very much in the mind of the beholder. -- Michael Kenna
Bad deeds like beauty, are in the eye of the beholder. -- J.R. Ward
Landscapes we must owe something to the eye of the beholder. -- Mary Lascelles
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness. -- Rodney Dangerfield
Adventure, like beauty, is very much in the eye of the beholder. -- Victoria Alexander
Junk is in the eyes of the beholder. Some look, but others see. -- Myles Munroe
What's good and bad, sweet spirit, are in the eye of the beholder. -- Jim Goad
You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder. -- Milton Friedman
Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before. -- Susanne Katherina Langer
Beauty begins in the eyes of the beholder; Reality ends in the mind of the observer. -- Joey Lawsin
It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder. -- Christopher Hitchens
Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist. -- Seth Godin
Insanity is in the eyes of the beholder. So I will continue to live my personal folly. -- Paulo Coelho
All art is concerned with the creation of an emotional reaction on the part of the beholder. -- Maren Elwood
Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias. -- Tom Brokaw
No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener. -- Walter Benjamin
The beholder's eye, which moves like an animal grazing, follows paths prepared for it in the picture. -- Paul Klee
Power is something that is abused. I suppose use and abuse are in the eye of the beholder. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd. -- Tom Lehrer
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I find it's often in huge tits, too. -- Brad Wilkerson
... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker. -- Carolyn Wells
It has been said that art is a tryst; for in the joy of it, maker and beholder meet. -- Kojiro Tomita
I think that was one of the biggest revelations is that leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder. -- Brigid Schulte
Well, beauty's in the eye of the beholder... It's all subjective. I'm kind of shy about it, but I'll take it. -- Marisa Miller
A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder. -- Mary Balogh
I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder. -- Raquel Cepeda
All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves. -- Dorothy Thompson
A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter... -- Henri Matisse
Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should. -- Georges Braque
I joined the Marines the week I turned 17, and that led to a few experiences that might qualify as adventure - eye of the beholder. -- Daniel Woodrell
No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy. -- Egon Schiele
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but us sheep know, true beauty is not in the eye: it lives in the mind. -- Craig Stone
I am blunt sometimes; I am diplomatic sometimes; I am all things in between. Abrasive, you know, I guess it's in the eye of the beholder. -- Susan Rice
It's a misconception that Beauty is in the Eyes of beholder. In my view, Beauty must be in the Heart of beholder for her true appreciation. -- Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. -- Henry David Thoreau
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through imagination, invention and confrontation. -- Keith Haring
[A photograph] should do something to the beholder; either give a more complete appreciation of beauty, or, if nothing else, even a good mental kick in the pants. -- Paul Outerbridge
While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and his subject that inveigles the untutored beholder. -- Walter J. Phillips
Beauty is an inner phenomenon. Beauty is not in objects, not in people, not even in the eyes of the beholder. It lies in the heart of every person -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated modern Western women into a harem slave. -- Fatema Mernissi
Only the beautiful can acknowledge all that is beautiful, and only the ugly can acknowledge all that is ugly as being beautiful. Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. -- Suzy Kassem
My art is largely made up of my pain; re-framed, redesigned and re-purposed. It's a mutually beneficial experience for both the creator and the beholder. Transformative healing is a beautiful process. -- Jaeda DeWalt
It certainly strikes the beholder with astonishment, to perceive what vast difficulties can be overcome by the pigmy arms of little mortal man, aided by science and directed by superior skill. -- Henry VIII of England
Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony. -- Abba Louisa Goold Woolson
It is said a virtuous woman is worth more than rubies. But I believe many men discover the hard way that virtue, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. -- Amanda Quick
What the artist must aim at above all else is this: to produce, by any process whatever, a work which by the life and humanity emanating from it communicates to the beholder . . . . -- Medardo Rosso
Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Over the years, autism has almost been a diagnosis in the eye of the beholder, which allows for all kinds of arguments and dissension and theories and competing therapies to come into play. -- John Donvan
The artist had captured a moment that went on suggesting other moments in the mind of the beholder. This, Timmon told me, was what every painter, every singer, every craftsman sought to create. -- Jim Grimsley
Importance, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder and that there is nothing inherently "logical" about the preference of users in looking for one component rather than another of a compound heading. -- Hans H Wellisch
It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that held and moved and stirred the beholder as sheer decoration could not. -- Clement Greenberg
Truth has been relegated to subjectivity; beauty has been subjugated to the beholder; and as millions are idiotized night after night, a global commune has been constructed with the arts enjoying a totalitarian rule. -- Ravi Zacharias
All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements. -- Henri Matisse
The work produced is a thing among things, able to be experienced and described as a sum of qualities. But from time to time it can face the receptive beholder in its whole embodied form. -- Martin Buber

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