Aim Quote by Jules Breton

“Beauty! Wasn't that what mattered? Beauty was hardly a popular ideal at that jumpy moment in history. The masses had been desensitized to it,…

— Tom Robbins

...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.

— Jean Genet

Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.

— Roger Scruton

The great crime which the moneyed classes and promoters of industry committed in the palmy Victorian days was the condemning of the workers to…

— D. H. Lawrence

“A certain beauty in the world is no mark of God's favor, said Mr. Huss. There is no beauty one may not balance by…

— H.G. Wells

The truly beautiful are often abused for apparent ugliness just as those with great vision often bump into things.

— Simon Munnery

Aesthetic culture is not the high-road to all the virtues, and, indeed, certain of the vices have been known to infest it. Neither, on…

— Lewis Foreman Day

MOST of the ugliness in the human narrative comes from a distorted quest to possess beauty. COVETING begins with appreciating blessings: MURDER begins with…

— Shane Claiborne

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

— Thornton Wilder

Good and evil and beauty and ugliness are only ornamental fruits of perspective, whose sole value lies in their linkage to what chance made…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“Beauty he loved for its own sake; ugliness, which more often than not was a form of inverted beauty, fascinated him. Life offered far…

— Anonymous

“Pale beauty stands aghast,” he said, “at the vulgar ugliness of men.”

— Tanith Lee