“What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.”
Joseph Brodsky
“No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.”
Oscar Wilde
“After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ''ugly.'' His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride -- they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.”
“Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy... ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens.”
Lester Beall
“I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”
Winston Churchill
“The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.”
