Art Quote by Coco Chanel

Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.

— Mona Simpson

“...often a thing that is ugly is ugly in itself, and often a thing that is ugly is only a thing that is forgotten,…

— Jamaica Kincaid

An ugly thing, that is what you are when you become a tourist, an ugly, empty thing, a stupid thing, a piece of rubbish…

— Jamaica Kincaid

Sometimes love can be an ugly thing.

— Sarah Dessen

I never saw an ugly thing in my life.

— John Constable

I met Courtney Love and she said she'd like to sleep with me, but she couldn't cos of my "pop-star thing"... so I said…

— Robbie Williams

It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.

— Matthew Weiner

“On top of the good was a hideously ugly bronze statue in the modern style. The statue was of a couple, dressed in togas,…

— Meg Cabot

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it…

— Corin Nemec

How can you say that modern art is ugly,when you worship the Lord in a building painted like this?

— Hans Rookmaaker

My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same time.

— Joshua Mohr

I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.

— Andy Warhol

There's enough ugliness - you know, we got wars going on and people dying and sickness and everything. We don't need to have our…

— Don McLean

By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is ugly, and…

— William Dean Howells