Jack Kerouac Quotes

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.

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

While truth is ultimately convergent, beauty is ultimately divergent. No one can and no one should tell anyone else what that person should consider beautiful.

I don't look at fashion the way other people do.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.

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

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I really just do what I like. I don't understand what the general public likes sometimes.

Art is all a matter of personality.

I don't think fashion is evil.

I only came to Paris with the intention of showing what I thought was strong and beautiful. It just so happened that my notion was different from everybody else's.

If you see somebody dressing like me, you know they're purposely trying to dress like me because I dress like nothing.

My approach is simple. It is nothing other than what I am thinking at the time I make each piece of clothing, whether I think it is strong and beautiful. The result is something that other people decide.

I just like to see and put out what I think is beautiful. And put my swag on it, and my style, and how I feel.

I'm not a guy who likes cliches. I don't think that stereotypes and cliches are the end of the line, when it comes to a performance.

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

I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't like it, you can paint over it!

There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.

I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.

No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.

I don't happen to like pretty things. I don't like pretty dresses. I like more attractive. I like people that look a little bit more offbeat. I don't like the classic pretty face. That doesn't mean it's not pretty or it's not wonderful, and most people don't agree with me, but that's the way I think.

I didn't set out to be unusual or different. I just wanted to do things my way.

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense.