Ugliness Quotes - Page 7

• There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like.

  Anais Nin

  Doe, Paid

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• Beauty is lyrical. Ugliness is elegiac.

  Mason Cooley

  Lyrical

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• Expenditure--like ugliness and errors--becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others.

  George Eliot

  Money, Errors, Differences

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus”, p.512, 谷月社

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• 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?

  Tony Kushner

  Artist, Accomplishment, Ineptitude

  "Tony Kushner At The School Of Visual Arts: ‘Artists Know That Diligence Counts As Much, If Not More, As Inspiration’". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2010.

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• Immature people falling in love destroy each other's freedom, create a bondage, make a prison. Mature persons in love help each other to be free; they help each other to destroy all sorts of bondages. And when love flows with freedom there is beauty. When love flows with dependence there is ugliness.

  Rajneesh

  Falling In Love, Freedom, Mature Person

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• Ugliness corrupts not only the eyes, but also the heart and mind.

  Henry van de Velde

  Heart, Eye, Mind

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• It really is the relationship you have with your self that presents the key to the “kingdom”, so to speak... Fighting is good, but not when it is fighting yourself. Changing the world is good but first one has to start inside and concurrently make that place right. The strife and the ugliness in the world is the outward manifestation of this troubled relationship we have within on a whole.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Fighting, Keys, Self

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• Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

  Honore de Balzac

  Paris, Pretty Woman, Inexplicable

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• Reality is perfect light. It frees you from the limitations of this world, from the ugliness, from the unhappiness of limited perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Light, Perfect

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• To mistake ugliness for reality is one of the frauds of the realistic school [of writing]. A hunger for the unknown and an aspiration toward beauty were inseparable from civilization. In America the word art was distorted to mean artificial.

  Anais Nin

  Art, Mistake, Mean

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• The real ugliness lies in the relationship between people who produce the technology and the things they produce, which results in a similar relationship between the people who use the technology and the things they use.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Lying, Real, Technology

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• UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Humility, Virtue, Certain

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.227, 谷月社

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• I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Cities, America, Criminals

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews”, p.70, University of Illinois Press

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• That was one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.

  Fay Wray

  Time, Technique, Faces

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• Elegance in objects is everybody’s right, and it shouldn’t cost more than ugliness.

  Paola Antonelli

  Cost, Elegance, Objects

  "The Shape of Things to Come" by Ian Parker, www.newyorker.com. February 23 & March 2, 2015.

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• We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.

  Charlie Pierce

  Government, Important, Matter

  "The President Finally Accepts America for Ourselves" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. July 27, 2015.

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• The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.

  John Carroll

  Lying, Pursuit, Ideological

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• There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them. No one should want to. Perfect joy, or perfect pain, with no contrasting element to define them, would mean a monotony of consciousness, would mean death

  Jean Toomer

  Pain, Mean, Perfect

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• A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.

  Mo Yan

  Dark, Expression, Criticism

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• Jesus could weep. Sometimes when you look at the ugliness that makes you weep, you know that the heart of God is also weeping. Jesus is for real. He does not give up on anyone, least of all on me.

  Desmond Tutu

  Jesus, Giving Up, Real

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• Mean people are really just sad people. They hurt others because they are hurting. Every person is born beautiful, and much of the ugliness in others was put inside of them by other hurting people.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Beautiful, Hurt, Recovery

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• You take me in, no questions asked. You strip away the ugliness that surrounds me. Are you an angel?

  Sarah McLachlan

  Friendship, Angel, Questions Asked

  Song: Sweet Surrender, Album: Surfacing

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• Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Photograph

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.76, Macmillan

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• The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The good gray conservative obliterating snow. Smoothing (in one white lacy euphemism after another) out all the black bleak angular unangelic nauseous ugliness of the blasted sterile world: dry buds, shrunken stone houses, dead vertical moving people all all all go under the great white beguiling wave. And come out transformed. Lose yourself in a numb dumb snow-daubed lattice of crystal and come out pure with the white virginal veneer you never had.

  Sylvia Plath

  Moving, Weather, White

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.73, Anchor

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• Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt.

  Edna Ferber

  Marriage, Hurt, Stars

  Edna Ferber (1962). “Show Boat ; So Big ; Cimarron: Three Living Novels of American Life”

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