All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

— Andre Maurois

To be able to take music and do something as profoundly original as what we did with the Allman Brothers, you've got to put…

— Butch Trucks

Windows are like eyes on a face, so if they are wrong the whole face looks ugly.

— George Clarke

Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work…

— Walter Darby Bannard

Well it just looks so ugly. Is it a boy or is it a girl?

— Anna Wintour

All art is an individual's expression of a culture. Cultures differ, so art looks different.

— Henry Glassie

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

— Roy Lichtenstein

I think that a lot of artists have succeeded in making what I might call "curator's art." Everybody's being accepted, and I always want…

— Jerry Saltz

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

— Roy Lichtenstein

“When, as a woman, you make yourself the work of art, and when you are then what everyone looks at, then whatever else, you…

— Claire Messud

What the work of art looks like isn't too important. It has to look like something if it has a physical form. No matter…

— Sol LeWitt

What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and…

— Roy Lichtenstein

Such a divine profession is art! When everything else looks so stale and disgustingly vacuous, so enthralls even the littlest real effort of art…

— Felix Mendelssohn

Outside is the world; it's there. Pop Art looks out into the world.

— Roy Lichtenstein

Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.

— Walter Darby Bannard