ugliness

It's funny how the ugly duckling always has so many beautiful things to teach us.

Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success We forget the easiness of free beautyLying sad right around the corner, Only an instant removed, Unnoticed and squandered.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.

Nobody's sweetheart is ugly.

Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.

It was the first time I saw the look on the face of the people I robbed: it was ugly. I was the cause of such ugliness, and the only thing that made me feel was a cruel pleasure which, I thought, was bound to transfigure my own face, to make me resplendent. I was then 23 years old. From that moment on, I felt capable of advancing in cruelty.

A stab had clearly once been made at de-uglifying these public spaces by painting a corridor a jaunty yellow. This was because, it turned out, babies come here to have their brains tested and someone thought the yellow might calm them. But I couldn__ see how. Such was the oppressive ugliness of this building it would have been like sticking a red nose on a cadaver and calling it Ronald McDonald.

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.

The sins of my sex... A woman who is ugly is pitiable, but a man who is ugly is forgiven.

When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.

When it comes to their love lives, some people do not really have high standards; they merely have low sex drive.

Imperfections don__ make something ugly.

Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.