Otto Dix Quotes

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

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.

Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful.

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.

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 think beauty can be everywhere.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

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

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

There are no actions involved in 'beautiful.' It's such an inactive thing, and it's so subject to each individual's taste and appreciation. It's a lovely word, but I feel like it's been hijacked by really boring, dull people who don't understand how to use words.

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

To tell you the truth, I am rather perplexed by the concept of 'art'. What one person considers to be 'art' is often not 'art' to another. 'Beautiful' and 'ugly' are old-fashioned concepts that are seldom applied these days; perhaps justifiably, who knows? Something repulsive, which gives you a moral hangover, and hurts your ears or eyes, may well be art. Only 'kitsch' is not art - we're all agreed about that. Indeed, but what is 'kitsch'? If only I knew!

For something to be beautiful it doesn’t have to be pretty.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

All is as beautiful as we think it.

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.