The conviction of tragedy that rises out of his [John Dos Passos's] work is the steady protest of a sensitive democratic conscience… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Sliderskew was in an ecstasy of delight, rolling her head about, drawing up her skinny shoulders, and wrinkling her cadaverous face… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists. — Laozi Copy Share Image
It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“We can change an ugly reality in a real way or in a virtual way! And because it is much easier, people… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Mean people are really just sad people. They hurt others because they are hurting. Every person is born beautiful, and much of… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
All the uglinesses of the world can best be forgotten in the beauty of nature! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Beauty feeds us. Anarchy is beauty. We are against the grey people. We want to decorate, like those fantastic Indian lorries which… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
True love survives all shocks: an affection originally produced by admiration for unusual beauty may not only survive the loss of that… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
