Perfection of rhythm, balanced perfection of rhythm. Everything in Nature is expressed by rhythmic waves of light. Every thought and action is a light-wave of thought and action. If one interprets the God within one, one's thoughts and actions must be balanced rhythmic waves. Ugliness, fears, failures and diseases arise from unbalanced thoughts and actions. Therefore think beauty always if one desire vitality of body and happiness.
I'm very aware that people find my wife and I's marriage disagreeable. But all I have to do is look at my four kids, and the love I have in my heart for my wife after 18 years of marriage, and the ugliness does fade.
Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.
As a painter, cursed or blessed with a terrible and vital sensuousness, I must look for wisdom with my eyes. I repeat, with my eyes, for nothing could be more ridiculous or irrelevant than a 'philosophical conception painted purely intellectually without the terrible fury of the senses grasping each visible form of beauty and ugliness.
The rationalism of the creative minds was tempered by abundant fantasies, and the supreme beauty of the monuments was probably spoiled by the circumambient vanities and ugliness; in a few cases the Greeks came as close to perfection as it was possible to do, yet they were human and imperfect.
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
Some men's ugliness is hard to beat.
There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like.
The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection.
. . . beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.
Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
I prefer ugliness to beauty, because ugliness endures.
Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.
Usually redemption implies rescue - being saved. What were you being saved from?' he inquired, his voice carefully neutral. 'Ugliness.
Ugliness is superior to beauty because it lasts longer.
But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.