Oskar Kokoschka Quotes

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

We all share beauty. It strikes us indiscriminately. There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty. If we take pictures of them and blow up the photographs, we realize we walk on beauty every day, even when things seem ugly around us.

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

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

I don't believe anyone is ugly.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

I have a heart. I want people to see me with their heart and not their eyes.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Yes, but everyone is beautiful to someone.

All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.

My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.

Love was not in it for me at first. I dated guys because of the way they looked. And then I began to learn that it's what's inside that counts. Love to me now is understanding. It's giving.

I think the things that make people different are the things that make them the most beautiful.

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.

If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.

How rich is anyone who can simply see human faces.

It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?

Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways.

So please don't judge me and I won't judge you 'cause it could get ugly before it gets beautiful.

You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.

When I see your face, there's not a thing that I would change 'cause you're are amazing just the way you are.