Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes

Not acknowledging that beauty is complex-that's the problem. I enjoy making it complex for people, because that's my world.

I'm not going to try and change how people perceive me. I think it's important to be a contradiction. People are contradictions; everyone has contradictions. So I don't expect anyone to look at me differently.

Indeed, there is no such thing as an altogether ugly woman — or altogether beautiful.

I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.

I think people will become more and more aware that we are all more than we seem.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue mountain. Some see it in a leg of mutton, others in a compound fracture; and to expect others to accept one's own definition of it is as absurd as to expect all humanity to use the same toilet-brush.

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

It's weird to me to see how different everyone's opinion of beauty is.

There's never an ugly bubble.

The reason people think I look good now is because I was never a beauty as a wee girl. And thank heavens. It's frightening to get old anyway, but if your looks were the cornerstone of your life, well, it would be very difficult.

Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty.

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.

For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at different times. How can one choose?

I think it's very pretty. Can it be pretty if no one thinks it's pretty? I think it's pretty. If you're the only one? That's pretty pretty. And what about the boys? Don't you want them to think you're pretty? I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty.

When the woman is attractive, is it an interesting picture, or is it the woman? I had a lot of headaches with that, which was why it was interesting. I don't think I always got it straight.

Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

I'm surrounded by young and beautiful people. I hate looking at ugliness.

Well, I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves. Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of actually looking and contemplating for its own sake.

A woman I should like to think I know rather well and a woman I had always considered a mystery, are in fact the same person.