“I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.” PeopleKnowsPiecesFashionFindingsUglyStoresInsaneAestheticGrossVansThrift Author:Victoria Legrand
“Music is relegated to an underground, relatively obscure group of listeners. It's partly because of the nature of the medium. With a piece of visual art, you can look at something ugly, brutal and in your face, but it's kind of - there it is. It doesn't take you over in the same way that putting on the music at a certain volume does.” WayLooksKindDoeArtFacesCertainPiecesGroupsMusic IsUglyMediumsVisualsYour FaceBrutalVolumeListenersObscureVisual Art Author:David Byrne
“Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.” ThinkingMindFirstsWholeBeautifulUsedTermChallengesPrinciplesPiecesBuildingMastersHabitUglyCuriousGrantedFeaturesAnalysisSimplestSynthesisHabits Of MindTake Nothing For Granted Book:Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932 Source: Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932
“An ugly thing, that is what you are when you become a tourist, an ugly, empty thing, a stupid thing, a piece of rubbish pausing here and there to gaze at this and taste that, and it will never occur to you that the people who inhabit the place in which you have just paused cannot stand you.” PeoplePiecesStupidTasteTravelEmptyUglyHere And ThereTouristsRubbishStupid ThingsPausingUgly Things Book:A Small Place Source: A Small Place
“You can imagine how the kids teased me, with a name like Chris Hemsworth. 'Kiss Ham'sWart'-that's what they called me. Meaning if there was a piece of ham with an ugly wart on it, I was such a loser I'd probably kiss it. It was endless.” IfsKidsNamesPiecesImagineKissingUglyEndlessLoserHamWarts Author:Chris Hemsworth
“If sanity ever returns to our society and we stop taking pretentious elites seriously, one of the signs will be that the public will force the removal of those ugly pieces of twisted metal that are called 'art' in front of government buildings.” IfsArtGovernmentForcePiecesFrontsBuildingReturnUglyOur SocietySanityMetalsElitesTwistedPretentiousRemoval Author:Thomas Sowell
“It's funny how insomnia has a way of hauling faded memories up from the cellar of the mind, unearthing buried bits of nostalgia from deep within and spreading the broken, jagged pieces out in front of you like a display of junk at a garage sale. It makes you feel cheap and guilty when you didn't do a thing in the world to kindle the dull burn in your veins or the sting in your eyes. Some nights the painful past unexpectedly pushes up through the floorboards like an ugly nightmarish weed, and by doing so, cultivates and nurtures an entirely new species of headache.” WorldWayFeelsMindEyePastNightBitsMemoriesPiecesFrontsBrokenSpeciesPainfulUglyNostalgiaGuiltyDullWeedBuriedDisplayNurtureVeinsInsomniaJunkFadedHeadacheGarageKindlesDeep WithinCellarsPush UpsPainful PastGarage Sale Author:Adam Young