“The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.” WayDoeArtBeautifulBeautySubjectsArt IsOvercomingUglyTiedRepresentationAvoidingInseparablePictorial Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918 Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918
“Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. It does or doesn't disturb optical monotony, and succeeds or fails in surmounting sterility of style or visual stereotype; it creates new beauty or it doesn't.” DoeArtFailingStyleSucceedArt IsUglyBoringVisualsStereotypeMonotony Author:Jerry Saltz
“The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through love of the ideal. The business of art is to appeal to the soul.” HeartMeanArtSoulArt IsIdealsUglyAppealsLifts Author:Florence Earle Coates
“My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism and what's there.” ArtTermFindingsArt IsUglyRealismThesisUgly Truth Author:Nikki Jean
“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 art be ugly. But it is, in a lot of it. And these people justify this crap by saying, "Oh we're just representing what's out there, man". Basically, you're making it worse and number one, the artist's job is to elevate people and to lift people up and to give them a place to go, something to hold on to.” PeopleMenGivingArtWarEnoughDyingArt IsUglySicknessJustifyCrapUglinessPeople Dying Author:Don McLean
“I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.” IfsWellsLongArtMadeStillsJobsFacesCareersArt IsUglyIf I CouldUnfortunateBeardUgly Face Author:Camille Claudel