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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.


Jean Cocteau

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LAO TZU A beautiful world with ugly people; an ugly world with beautiful people. We can never win.
ANTHONY LICCIONE It's funny how the ugly duckling always has so many beautiful things to teach us.
CURTIS TYRONE JONES I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just...
JOHN FOWLES The world is beautiful. It's the things in it that are ugly.
AERIAL NICOLE MITCHELL The power to make the very ugly to become beautiful,is by getting used to seeing their faces.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) There are so many awful things in this world, but I wanted readers to share with me the small, beaut...
NOVALA TAKEMOTO Beautiful. And ugly. The world is always both.
ANN AGUIRRE After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I prefer ugly things. I prefer things which are surprising.
DRIES VAN NOTEN The most beautiful rose still has to contend with ugly thorns.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Only the beautiful can acknowledge all that is beautiful, and only the ugly can acknowledge all that...
SUZY KASSEM Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is c...
MAEVE BINCHY The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.
SIMONE VEIL The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real
SIMONE WEIL It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits...
COLETTE It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits...
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE advertising produces familiarity which produces sales
PAUL COOKSON Things are beautiful or ugly only in time and space. The new man's vision being liberated from t...
PIET MONDRIAN Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault...
OSCAR WILDE Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
MOLI I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that...
OSCAR WILDE So many things become beautiful when you really look.
LAUREN OLIVER What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and ho...
CORIN NEMEC The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.
MALCOLM DE CHAZAL I think I can be beautiful with all the little stuff done, and I can be ugly. A lot of attractive ac...
JULIETTE LEWIS There is no beauty that is more beautiful than a kind heart for the ugliest are always the ugly hear...
ARES E. R. BAES If beautiful lilies bloom in ugly waters, you too can blossom in ugly situations.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books...
ROBERT GOTTLIEB With time, fashion has become part of my DNA.
ROBERTO CAVALLI It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beaut...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Why do beautiful women love ugly men?
JILL LEPORE Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the co...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD When we admire beautiful things do we ever consider how much was endured to become so beautiful...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE All women are beautiful; it's society who’s ugly.
BEN MITCHELL Beautiful gifts sometimes come adorned in ugly wrapping.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Sometimes life gets ugly before it gets beautiful
J. STERLING Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and th...
SARAH MCLACHLAN Even the details of a rifle, which are nothing but mechanical, if they are made carefully, with atte...
MICHAEL CIMINO Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Always embrace the little things,for they are the seed that produces the fruit called the big things...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS To be a beautiful person, fill your life with other beautiful people, places and things.
THOMAS J. POWELL Life is a beautiful disease. Death is the ugly cure.
WOHI PURANA A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
KARL KRAUS Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligen...
JOSE MOURINHO Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the ...
E. M. FORSTER The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
VICTOR HUGO There are no ugly things, only ugly thoughts.
MARTY RUBIN An ugly jar full of water is worth more than an empty beautiful one in the desert.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Life is a beautiful disease. Death is an ugly cure.
WOHI PURANA Life is beautiful, but it is also so damn ugly.
MOMMY MOO MOO So, although my story is sometimes ugly, it's also beautiful.
NIKI KRAUSS There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes ...
MAEVE BINCHY I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so u...
J. R. SMITH To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other peo...
MAX BEERBOHM To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other peopl...
MAX BEERBOHM There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is ...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault...
OSCAR WILDE Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. It sure is ugly.”
“Ugly, never hurt a thing.”
I scoffed. “Oh, ugly has hurt some ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Such an ugly thing to happen in such a beautiful place.
ALICE HOGAN Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later an...
SARAH MCLACHLAN My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a co...
CARLOS SLIM It's the beautiful moments like this that make up for the ugly love
COLLEEN HOOVER 'Screen time' is meaningless - what matters is what you do while on the screen. The good, th...
DAPHNE BAVELIER Words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which make...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which make...
LORD BYRON Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
AMBROSE BIERCE Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
AMBROSE BIERCE Love is a 'beautiful' thing but even true love can get ugly....
PRINCE HOPKINS AMACHREE A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment....
KATE GRENVILLE She left feeling dirty, and on the bus ride home she knew that what her uncles told her had come tru...
DAVID BERGEN Art is not just a display of beauty. Art also reflects what is ugly, and it celebrates the grotesque...
KILROY J. OLDSTER He looked so beautiful, and it pissed me off that he could look so beautiful when he was so ugly.
NASHODA ROSE People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of th...
KURT VONNEGUT JR. Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impote...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impote...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which...
LORD BYRON But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces That...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Don’t ever let a guy make you feel ugly because no matter what you are beautiful with or without h...
ZAYN MALIK Optimism, n. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
AMBROSE BIERCE People are so worried about being beautiful, they forgot what real ugly is.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS Sometimes you have to do something ugly so that something beautiful can grow.
CEDRIC NYE It is not necessity but abundance which produces avarice
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Don’t ever forget you are beautiful, although your life, your past and your present situation may ...
RICKY MAYE That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.
NINON DE L'ENCLOS That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
NINON DE L'ENCLOS That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
NINON DE LENCLOS That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.
NITIN NOHRIA The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
THOMAS HUXLEY The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
THOMAS HUXLEY The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
THOMAS HUXLEY The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY David loves everybody. He doesn't hear the mean things people say. He doesn't see the mean things pe...
JANIE BESS The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically...
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