Ugliness Quotes - Page 5

• It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness and injustice.

  Liam O'Flaherty

  Artist, Creative, Impossible

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• An exclusive person hates ugliness, discomfort, enemies, sickness, poverty, ignorance. He finally concludes that there is no God and give himself over to abandonment.

  Michio Kushi

  Hate, Ignorance, Giving

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• The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Motivation, Inspiration, America

  "The Greatest Misallocation of Resources in the History of the World". "Placemakers" with Rebecca Sheir, www.slate.com. November 7, 2016.

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• 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.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Flower, Order, People

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• We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn that the state of the skies and the appearance of our dwellings can never on their own underwrite our joy nor condemn us to misery.

  Alain de Botton

  Home, Dwelling, Islands

  "On anticipation". www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2002.

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• If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the hearing ear, the seeing eye, the active mind, and energetic body of man and woman, in the same way that dirt and dung at the roots give the plant its delicate leaves and the full-blown rose.

  Sean O'Casey

  Eye, Past, Men

  Sean O'Casey (1981). “Inishfallen, fare thee well”

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• Ugly is attractive, ugly is exciting. Maybe because it is newer. The investigation of ugliness is, to me, more interesting than the bourgeois idea of beauty. And why? Because ugly is human.

  Miuccia Prada

  Ideas, Interesting, Ugly

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• If you have been afraid that your love of beautiful flowers and the flickering flame of the candle is somehow less spiritual than living in starkness and ugliness, remember that He who created you to be creative gave you the things with which to make beauty and the sensitivity to appreciate and respond to His creation.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Flower

  Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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• Along with everything else, I know that there is a beauty in mankind. It is a beauty that no ugliness, no violence, no hatred and no evil can ever completely erase. I have also learned there is a majesty in mankind. It is a majesty that no sickness, no suffering, no want or lack, no poverty and no pain can ever
  truly subjugate.

  Don Pendleton

  Pain, Evil, Hatred

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• The more clearly we recognize how deep our commitment to self-protection operates in our relational style and the more courageously we face the ugliness of protecting ourselves rather than loving others, the more we'll shift our direction.

  Larry Crabb

  Commitment, Self, Style

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• Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.

  Roger Scruton

  Art, Two, Everyday

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• The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Beautiful, Rocks, Facts

  "Sex Pistols manager dead". "The World Today", www.abc.net.au. April 9, 2010.

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• Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning.

  Christine de Pizan

  Children, Pain, Lying

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• He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of chaos and beauty out of ugliness. He can transform a sin-blistered man into a paragon of virtue. The Spirit changes people. The Author of life is also the Transformer of life.

  R. C. Sproul

  Powerful, Men, Order

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• I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses.  I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign myself to no ugliness, accept nothing of the world but the one I made myself.  I wrote, lived, loved like Don Quixote, and on the day of my death I will say: ‘Excuse me, it was all a dream,’ and by that time I may have found one who will say: ‘Not at all, it was true, absolutely true.’

  Anais Nin

  Dream, World, May

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• In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather than decreasing.

  Nick Clooney

  People, Matter, Our Relationship

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• Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?

  Jean Toomer

  Hurt, It Hurts, Ifs

  Jean Toomer (2011). “Cane (New Edition)”, p.116, W. W. Norton & Company

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• All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape.

  Angus Wilson

  Pride, Feet, Self

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• The highways of American cities are an enduring testimony to our acceptance of ugliness

  J. Rufus Fears

  Acceptance, Cities, Endure

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• When you think that you are beautiful, you are liable to think that you are more beautiful than others, and such a thought is not a beautiful thought. To recognize or criticize ugliness and inferiority in others is to create the inferior and the ugly in yourself, and what you create in yourself will sooner or later be expressed through your mind and personality.

  Christian D. Larson

  Beautiful, Thinking, Personality

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.296, Penguin

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• Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.

  Sharon Tate

  Ocean, Flower, Bird

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm surrounded by young and beautiful people. I hate looking at ugliness.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Beautiful, Hate, People

  "The World According to Karl: The Wit and Wisdom of Karl Lagerfeld". Book by Charles Ameline, www.businessinsider.com. 2013.

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• Since hearing beauty in something is essentially a positive response and hearing ugliness is negative, might it ultimately be more difficult for an open-minded listener to define ugliness than it is to define beauty?

  Frank J. Oteri

  Negative, Might, Hearing

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• The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Fashion, Fighting, Doctors

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• What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near? Even with her altered complexion and face of dislike; disenchanted of the belief that clung around her; known for a living, walking sepulcher, faithless, deluding, traitorous; I felt, notwithstanding all this, that she was beautiful. Upon this I pondered with undiminished perplexity.

  George MacDonald

  Beautiful, Faces, Belief

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.353, e-artnow

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