Are looks important in a relationship?

To a degree. Unless you are blind, I would think you would have to feel some kind of visual attraction. In my dating years I met a few men wo seemed nice enough, but because of some physical attribute I wouldn't date them. Maybe if they had more of personality traits I enjoyed I could of worked past it, but they didn't express them enough early on for me to even try.

Yes, they are important. They're not everything, and over time they won't matter as much, but I'm not going to pretend they aren't important.

Somewhat, but it takes much more than looks to build a relationship.

It helps but not the most important thing.

To a degree, at least for me. If someone is not all that attractive, I weigh their other attributes because I can get used to someone's looks, however if their personality sucks, I'm out.

Looks are important to begin a relationship and keep it going as well apart from being good partner?

My mother disapproved of a girl I met (I guess I was around 18 or 19, but still living at home). She was clever, witty, affectionate, but not pretty (but not ugly either).

I regret to this day that I missed out on a really lovely girl.

I guess that my mother would have been more accepting if she had looked beyond the face.

Looks isnt everything

I think that the more you end up liking/loving a person, the more attractive they become. And that even goes with non sexual relationships as well. Such as a co-worker, neighbor or a friend. You may think that they are not very attractive at first but then one day down the road you look at them and think "wow! There is something very different about them. Did s/he always have those eyes? I never realized how pretty/handsome they were"

Usually attraction plays the initial part. The primitive brain looks for symmetry in a mate, which usually is a tell tale of a genetic code that will pass well to the offspring. A few other factors like pheromones. And body language give away a person's health as well . . . Even if you do not plan to have children our primitive brains make many decisions based on passing genetic code on to the possibility of children.