Quotes About Ugliness

People may go on talking for ever of the jealousies of pretty women; but for real genuine, hard-working envy, there is nothing like an ugly woman with a taste for admiration.

Beauty feeds us. Anarchy is beauty. We are against the grey people. We want to decorate, like those fantastic Indian lorries which are covered with flowers. Beauty must conquer the lust for order; order is ugliness.

Ugly people look prettier in the dark.

Bad theology begets ugly Christianity. Good theology begets beautiful Christianity.

Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?

Everywhere and always ugliness has its beautiful aspects; it is thrilling to discover them where nobody else has noticed them.

IVY: Mom believes women don't grow more attractive with age. KAREN: Oh, I disagree, I— VIOLET: I didn't say they "don't grow more attractive," I said they get ugly. And it's not really a matter of opinion, Karen dear. You've only just started to prove it yourself.

In practice I think it's easier to see ugliness than to imagine beauty. Most of the people who've made beautiful things seem to have done it by fixing something they thought ugly.

In practice I think it's easier to see ugliness than to imagine beauty.

the power of beauty:what must the world be like for ugly women?

We stop being the moonlight and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it. Tomorrow, the water will evaporate in the sun. And all because, one day, someone said: 'You are ugly. Or: 'She is pretty.' With those three simple words, they stole away all our self-confidence. And we become ugly and embittered.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.

Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

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.

Everything gets horrible. Everything you see gets ugly. Lurid is the word. Doctor Garton said lurid, one time. That's the right word for it. And everything sounds harsh, spiny and harsh sounding, like every sound you hear all of a sudden has teeth. And smelling like I smell bad even after I just got out of the shower. It's like what's the point of washing if everything smells like I need another shower

So fair and foul a day I have not seen.

Oh, what a world is this when what is comely Envenoms him that bears it!

It's alright," they say, "Of course, there's beauty there," but they hold back; you know they have seen or heard of the ugliness and the insularity there. They have experienced the farawayness of it. I have learned to keep silent, not to berate them for their disregard of the Brits' role in the colonial tragedy of my country.

A feiura é o meu estandarte de guerra. Eu amo o feio com um amor de igual para igual.

Nací dura, heroica, solitaria y de pie. Y he encontrado mi contrapunto en el paisaje sin elementos pintorescos y sin belleza. La fealdad es mi estandarte de guerra. Yo amo lo feo con un amor de igual a igual. Y desafío a la muerte. Yo, yo soy mi propia muerte.

The heat compounded, and ugliness settled its cloud over us, profound as human speech, although by then we were not speaking.

It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.

The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible.