Pastoral Resources

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.

I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.