Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.
Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.
I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.
I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws.
In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather than decreasing.
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.
I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.
Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.
There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.
Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.
It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.
I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.
I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories