Eoin Colfer Quotes

New things are always ugly.

...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.

His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because it's ugly." All his life was in that line.

It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

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.

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!

Nature is beautiful, but not always pretty.

I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.

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

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

What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.

Beauty is lyrical. Ugliness is elegiac.

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness.

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

For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

With lacquerware there is an extra beauty in that moment between removing the lid and lifting the bowl to the mouth, when one gazes at the still, silent liquid in the dark depths of the bowl, its colour hardly differing from that of the bowl itself. What lies within the darkness one cannot distinguish, but the palm senses the gentle movements of the liquid, vapour rises from within, forming droplets on the rim, and the fragrance carried upon the vapour brings a delicate anticipation ... a moment of mystery, it might almost be called, a moment of trance.

Ugliness does not sell.

Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use.

I wanted to make a horror film about beauty.

Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.

Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.

Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.

Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.

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