The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the… — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
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I'm very aware that people find my wife and I's marriage disagreeable. But all I have to do is look at my… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
What is pretty in nature is confined to the thin skin of the globe upon which we huddle. Scratch that skin, and… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If we focus just on what's ugly and bad, we attract more ugliness into our thoughts, and then into our emotions, and… — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
Remember this: For all the ugliness in the world there is far more beauty. For all the cruelty there is far more… — Dalia Mogahed Copy Share Image
...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“It is a wondrous thing, the human foot—like the human hand; even more so, perhaps; but, unlike the hand, with which we… — George du Maurier Copy Share Image
Everything in the world has its two faces, however. Weeds sometimes blossom into artful flowers. Beauty walks hand in hand with ugliness,… — Tiffany Baker Copy Share Image
Life is more than matter. If it were just matter, there would be no need for comfort. Matter does not feel comfort… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“It is impossible for me to be an Anarchist, for I do not believe in the essential goodness of man. The world,… — Edna St Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
As a painter, cursed or blessed with a terrible and vital sensuousness, I must look for wisdom with my eyes. I repeat,… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
If we fully trust that God is as beautiful as he reveals himself to be on the cross, we must regard the… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
Aesthetic racism is almost always a sign of inexperience. Those who have not made their way far enough into the world of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It appears to be a matter of national pride that the President is to have more mud, and blacker mud, and filthier… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
You try to be good, to be good and loving and nice and not hard, not tough, a sweet nice girl, not… — Michelle Tea 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
I don't know what my formula is. I only know I like my characters to walk in clouds. I like a little… — Leo McCarey Copy Share Image
The wretched beings depicted by Millet touch us profoundly because he loved them profoundly. They have nothing in common with vulgar ugliness.… — Jules Breton Copy Share Image
Abraham Zogoiby covered his face that night in August 1939 because he had been assailed by fear, [...] a sudden apprehension that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When you think that you are beautiful, you are liable to think that you are more beautiful than others, and such a… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
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He knows no other way but ugliness,” Sir Topher said quietly. “He was taught no other lessons but those of force. His… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
AN ARTISTIC DISCOVERY OCCURS EACH TIME AS A NEW AND UNIQUE IMAGE OF THE WORLD, A HIEROGLYPHIC OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH. IT APPEARS… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
I would wear pink because I knew my future was anything but rosy. I would accessorize myself to the hilt, and I… — Karen Marie Moning 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
Wish you could turn off the questions, turn off the voices, turn off all sound. Yearn to close out the ugliness, close… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
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