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  • Beauty is embarrassing for three reasons. When we see something beautiful it calls up raw, naked emotion and that's an embarrassing situation to be in. Number two... People that are born beautiful like supermodels act like entitled a**holes. It makes you embarrassed just to see 'em. They handle beauty embarrassingly. Number three... Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line. It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty. So that's just three of several reasons why I think beauty is embarrassing.

    "'Pee Wee's Playhouse' Designer Wayne White Finds That 'Beauty Is Embarrassing'". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. September 4, 2012.

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