“Any base heart can devise means of vileness, and affix the ugly shapings of its own fancy to the actions of those around him; but it requires loftiness of mind, and the heaven-born spirit of virtue, to imagine greatness where it is not, and to deck the sordid objects of nature in the beautiful robes of loveliness and light.” MindHeartMeanLightActionBeautifulSpiritHeavenBornVirtueImagineObjectsGreatnessUglyFancySuspicionDeckRobesLoveliness Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages... a beautiful object must always follow certain rules. A beautiful nose shouldn't be longer than that or shorter than that, on the contrary, an ugly nose can be as long as the one of Pinocchio, or as big as the trunk of an elephant, or like the beak of an eagle, and so ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.” IfsWayLongBigsAgeBeautifulCertainPossibilityObjectsOffersConceptsInfiniteUglyBoringContraryRangeNosesElephantsUnpredictableFiniteUglinessEaglesTrunksBeaksBeautiful Objects Author:Umberto Eco
“It is by the steady elimination of everything which is ugly - thoughts and words no less than tangible objects - and by the substitution of things of true and lasting beauty that the whole progress of humanity proceeds.” WholeHumanityProgressObjectsUglyLastingSteadyTangibleEliminationSubstitutionThoughts And Words Author:Anna Pavlova
“Wake up and realize this is all made up of thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought; your aversion to an object that is ugly is a thought. Your craving or aversion is nothing but a passing thought in the mind. Realize this is just a thought and you will be free.” MindMadeRealizingObjectsWake UpAppreciationUglyPassingPassingsCravingAversionJust A Thought Author:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
“I find it very sad that so many girls who look up to me are young women of color who have been told that they are ugly, and who feel that they are not normal...I think it's so important that women look like me find that they can be beautiful or objects of love, attention and affection.” ThinkingFeelsLooksHas BeensImportantBeautifulYoungGirlAttentionObjectsColorNormalAffectionUglyLike MeLook UpYoung WomenVery Sad Author:Mindy Kaling
“Even an ugly, abject photograph bears the recording of its making... my goal [is] to create dense objects, works in which many lines of thought converge.” GoalLinesObjectsBearsPhotographUglyDense Author:James Welling