Pastoral Resources

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.

I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.

In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather than decreasing.

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.

It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.

They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.

I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.