quotes about Ugliness
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There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like.
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What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.
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Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.
-- Brent WeeksSource : "The Black Prism". Book by Brent Weeks, August 25, 2010.
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... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
-- Edith SitwellSource : Edith Sitwell (Dame), John Lehmann, Derek Parker (1970). “Selected letters”, MacMillan
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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 -
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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 -
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Elegance in objects is everybody’s right, and it shouldn’t cost more than ugliness.
-- Paola AntonelliSource : "The Shape of Things to Come" by Ian Parker, www.newyorker.com. February 23 & March 2, 2015.
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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 VivienSource : Renée Vivien (1979). “At the sweet hour of hand in hand”
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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 -
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You have never seen ugliness in a happy face.
-- William John LockeSource : William John Locke (19??). “The Belovd Vagabond”, p.272, Library of Alexandria
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Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.
-- I. L. PeretzSource : I. L. Peretz (2013). “The I. L. Peretz Reader”, p.329, Open Road Media