Alice Walker Quotes

In all things that live there are certain irregularities, and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry.

Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.

I find beauty in imperfection.

I see flaws as a kind of beauty.

Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.

Imperfections define perfection

Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.

In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful

It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.

Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

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

I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.

I don't love Photoshop; I like imperfection. It doesn't mean ugly. I love a girl with a gap between her teeth, versus perfect white veneers. Perfection is just... boring. Perfect is what's natural or real; that is beauty.

Nature is perfect.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.

There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!

The Amen of nature is always a flower.