Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

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.

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.

Indeed, there is no such thing as an altogether ugly woman — or altogether beautiful.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

Beauty, my dear Sir, is not so much a quality of the object beheld, as an effect in him who beholds it. If our sight were longer or shorter, or if our constitution were different, what now appears beautiful to us would seem misshapen, and what we now think misshapen we should regard as beautiful. The most beautiful hand seen through the microscope will appear horrible. Some things are beautiful at a distance, but ugly near;

There is no such thing as ugly.

It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.

Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?

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!

I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.

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

I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

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

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

Whenever we say a person's name, notice whether we have stated more than a fact. For example, the judgment, 'She's thoughtless' goes beyond the facts 'She said she'd call me and she didn't.'

It is necessary to judge accurately the things that rest on opinion

There's never an ugly bubble.

Do not engage to find things as you think they are.

If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.

Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare.