Art Quote by Roger Scruton

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

— Douglas Horton

We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order...

— Plotinus

“Beauty is a fragile and vulnerable quality, and moreover one that is difficult to achieve; ugliness, by contrast, is unbreakable and invulnerable, and very…

— Roger Kimball

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

— Jean Genet

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

— Brent Weeks

Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent…

— Anonymous

Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.

— Alvar Aalto

Beauty arises out of human inspiration.

— Richard Dawkins

What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.

— Auguste Rodin

Beauty is the product of the dominant ideology. (Thus when ideology changes, the ideal body follows.) We can see that in the history of…

— Orlan

Beauty alters the grain of reality,

— Donna Tartt

“When the world knows beauty as beauty, ugliness arises.”

— Lao Tzu