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Ugliness Quotes

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Douglas Horton

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

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Ouida

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

Daniel Goleman

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness

Unknown

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Ugliness like beauty is only skin deep

Unknown

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Ambrose Bierce

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Cathy Better

Ugliness without tact is horrible

Nataniel Hawthorne

We believe that ugliness begets ugliness and that nature's beauty, once destroyed, may never be restored by the artifice of man.

Carl Carmer†

Beauty and ugliness disappear equally under the wrinkles of age; one is lost in them the other hidden

Jonathan Petit Senn

Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.

Angus Wilson

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

Salvador Dali

Every persons true identity is beautiful, and much of the ugliness we observe in others was put inside of them by external influences.

Bryant McGill

We haven't accepted we can't really believe that the most characteristic product of our age of scientific miracles is junk, but that is so. And we still think and behave as though we face an unspoiled continent, with thousands of acres of living space for every man. We still sing "America the Beautiful" as though we had not created in it, by strenuous effort, at great expense, and with dauntless self-praise, an unprecedented ugliness.

Wendell Berry

Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.

Nicolas Boileau-Despraux

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