Ugliness Quotes
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.
I wanted to be an honest writer and show my ugliness as much as I showed my hopes or goodness. And that really sculpted the type of artist I've become.
When I was a child I experienced moments of not wanting to see the ugliness, not wanting to see not being wanted. This lack of love went into my eyes and into my mind.
It is better to sit in appreciative contemplation of a world in which beauty is eternally supported on a foundation of ugliness: cut out the support, and beauty will sink from sight.
For the book to succeed, it has to have equal parts ugliness and beauty, counterpoints adding up to emotional complexity. To me, there's a dignity in letting your art be emotionally complex.
The wretched beings depicted by Millet touch us profoundly because he loved them profoundly. They have nothing in common with vulgar ugliness. Beauty will always remain the highest aim of art.
Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action.
It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists.
Yes, that man acted ugly," she told us in plain English. "But throwing more ugliness back at him ain't the answer.
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not often hidden — only ugliness and deformity.
He's most likely robbing the bank as a paycheck on the world for winning the ugliness prize at his local fete three years running.
Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
I see so much beauty in people and in the world and when I see ugliness I try to either expose it or fight but also remind myself that it's mostly just people who can't spell who say mean things.
You take me in, no questions asked. You strip away the ugliness that surrounds me. Are you an angel?
Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.
The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.
Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty.
The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told; I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart.
What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you’re so ugly on the inside?
Isn’t that the way God works? She’d thought. He takes the things in our lives that are ugly, disgusting, and downright wicked, and transforms them into something magnificent.
Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.
Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success We forget the easiness of free beautyLying sad right around the corner, Only an instant removed, Unnoticed and squandered.
It's funny how the ugly duckling always has so many beautiful things to teach us.
How badly arranged the world is. What is the purpose of ugliness, suffering, sadness? Why our powerless dreams? Why everything?
Nothing humbles a beautiful woman better than not being wanted by a man whose girlfriend or wife is ugly (or not as beautiful as she is).
Beauty is single. Only ugliness is multiple, and even then its multiplicity is soon exhausted.
Not only have people stopped trying to be attractive when they are out among other people, but they are no longer even trying not to look ugly!
The greatest ugliness in the world is seeing so beautiful a creature spoil themselves on stupidity.
Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they are accused of).
Philosophy, in its simplest form, is the exploration of the beauty and ugliness of life.
Why do we decorate the world with the ugliness of war when nature is so beautiful and kind?
Only the beautiful can acknowledge all that is beautiful, and only the ugly can acknowledge all that is ugly as being beautiful.
