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

Stop bothering me with your pathetic politics - I'd rather go to the whorehouse.

I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.

I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I?

I will either be famous or infamous.

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

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.

As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.

Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.

People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.

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.

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.

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.

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

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

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

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

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

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

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Only ugliness is obscene.

People are reminded that it's not all ugliness in the world.

I love nice things - I consider Ralph Lauren sheets to be a necessity, not a luxury - but I've known what it's like to be poor.

I got arrested for signing autographs. Signing a little girl's autograph got me arrested.

There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning.

They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society.