Ugliness famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like.
-- Anais Nin -
What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.
-- Auguste Rodin -
Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.
-- Brent Weeks -
... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
-- Edith Sitwell -
Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel -
Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?
-- Jean Toomer -
My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see
-- Marcel Duchamp -
The repercussion of ugliness is endless.
-- Massimo Vignelli -
Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.
-- Nicolas Chamfort -
Elegance in objects is everybody’s right, and it shouldn’t cost more than ugliness.
-- Paola Antonelli -
Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.
-- Peter Bogdanovich -
We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order...
-- Plotinus -
I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.
-- Renee Vivien -
I prefer ugliness to beauty, because ugliness endures.
-- Serge Gainsbourg -
Ugliness is superior to beauty because it lasts longer.
-- Serge Gainsbourg -
Few persons comprehend the power of ugliness.
-- Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau -
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....
-- William Butler Yeats -
You have never seen ugliness in a happy face.
-- William John Locke