That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible…

Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two…

— Charles Baudelaire

From his soft fur, golden and brown, Goes out so sweet a scent, one night I might have been embalmed in it By giving…

— Charles Baudelaire

Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in…

— Octavio Paz

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and…

— Joseph Addison

One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities.

— Stephanie Tubbs Jones

The word itself has another color. It’s not a word with any resonance, although the e was once pronounced. There is only the bump…

— Anonymous

The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words…

— Joshua Foer

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of letters, parcels…

— Henry Walter Bates

Close investigation will show that the primary cause of oppression and injustice, of unrighteousness, irregularity and disorder, is the people's lack of religious faith…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable,…

— Gertrude Stein