"... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin."

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Source : Edith Sitwell (Dame), John Lehmann, Derek Parker (1970). “Selected letters”, MacMillan

Edith Sitwell

#Skins Quotes #Endure Quotes #Ugliness Quotes

“I can DO ANYTHING I want, but I can't DO EVERYTHING I want.”
“I put on your sequined ball gown and I checked the mirror there. Why, I looked like Cindy Crawford, but with much more body hair.”
“The Penobscot took an initial poll of people in the state to determine if there was support for opening a casino, and the poll came back very favorable. As we moved forward, a commercial was aired that said if the tribe opened a casino the law would allow kids to gamble and had an image of a kid pulling a slot machine. Here it was our idea and we got massacred, and someone else ended up with what we wanted; it's sort of like history repeating itself.”
“What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality. I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality. It may sound paradoxical, but it is in fact reality which forms the mystery of our existence.”

Source : Max Beckmann (2003). “Max Beckmann On My Painting”, Tate
“You either disrupt your own company or someone else will.”
“When life is hard and the day has been long, the ideal dinner is not four perfect courses, each in a lovely pool of sauce whose ambrosial flavors are like nothing ever before tasted, but rather something comforting and savory, easy on the digestion - something that makes one feel, if even for only a minute, that one is safe.”
“Every country has the government it deserves.”

Source : Lettres et Opuscules Inedits vol. 1, no. 53 (1851) (letter of 15 Aug. 1811)
“Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.”

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