Meaning of this quote, "Fear beauty."?

Question

Meaning of this quote, "Fear beauty."?

Answer 1

It is a warning to look beyond superficial  or surface attractiveness or harmony into the deeper soul or the intent of a person or object to perceive its true value. To not be distracted by beauty from your purpose. To understand that beauty (as in Helen of Troy) can cause horrible problems that can cause the destruction of many people for no good reason..

Answer 2

Proponents of high Modernism fear beauty because it may swamp their logic. They fear that it will beguile the viewer into accepting a lie. From their stance beauty is something that clouds the vision, something that obscures or, at best, elaborates upon the truth. If beauty is untruthful then the obverse must be true of ugliness, seems to be the `logic’. Anything ugly then takes on an unimpeachable authenticity.