Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil. — Democritus Copy Share Image
It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Anytime a culture is in economic stress, ugly things start happening. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
People are willing to do really ugly things if lots of other people are also doing them. — Christopher Wylie Copy Share Image
A lot of my work is intelligent, a lot of the work is beautiful, but I make ugly things, too. — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“The beauty of Florence made up for many ugly things he saw in his work. (Commissario Garini's view of Florence,Italy.)” — Beate Boeker Copy Share Image
One thing that's certain: around the corner from every ugly thing, there's something really beautiful. If we stop at every bitter interaction;… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
Try to do ugly things so that you make them beautiful... The more delicate the thing is in nature the more one… — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
When sex disappears the tremendous energy of love is left behind. Each ugly thing in your mind, disappearing, leaves a great treasure… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“What if I should look ugly without being bad - look ugly myself because I am making ugly things beautiful? - What… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I wanted to do a war movie, a western and an alien movie. In reality, there are a lot of ugly things… — Aaron Eckhart Copy Share Image
I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion. — Yohji Yamamoto Copy Share Image
...[K]now that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful. A severed hand Is an ugly thing, and man dissevered from… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
Since I have introduced this term I had always a bad conscience. . . . I cannot help to feel it strongly… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Pretty people do ugly things. It was one of those laws of nature that Gaia had understood for years. If she ever… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image