William Butler Yeats Quotes

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.

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

Art has a way of confronting us, of reminding us, of engaging us, in what it means to be human, and what it means to be human is to be flawed, is to be contradictory, is to be often weak, and yet despite all of these what we would consider drawbacks, that we're also quite beautiful. Spin is the opposite.

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.

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

Ugliness has been allowed too long. It is time to act.

I think that one of the things that drives me in telling stories, and art in general, is finding the beautiful in a big mass of ugly.

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

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

Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way.

I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.

Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.

Out of ugly, make something beautiful.

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.

Hold fast to whatever fragments of love that exist, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern.

Engineering, like poetry, is an attempt to approach perfection. And engineers, like poets, are seldom completely satisfied with their creations. They notice, even if no one else does, the world that is not quite le mot juste, or the hairline crack that blemishes the structure.

Social change can be seen as a mosaic, taking that which is broken and creating something new.

You look on the Internet, and people are transforming themselves on a daily basis, and it's not a superficial thing, it's not a vain thing, and it's not an "I don't like the way I look" thing. It's people truly being creative. It's a way of making your mark and making a statement, and I love that. Beauty is making a statement in whichever way you choose to do so, and I think that's a beautiful thing.

I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I like things like cuts and bruises - they're like little flowers. I've always said that if you have a name for something, like 'cut' or 'bruise,' people will automatically be disturbed by it. But when you see the same thing in nature, and you don't know what it is, it can be very beautiful.

Our flaws are what make us perfect.

To me, that ugliness, that grotesqueness - that's the essence [of life]. That's where you realize, it's not about all the consonance and the harmony. It's all the parts that are wrong that help explain why we're drawn to something - what the mystery is - just as much as the beautiful things.

Others form man; I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.

God gives us the ugliness so we don't take the beautiful things in life for granted.

Does he have ugly hands? Sometimes beautiful people have ugly hands." "No he has kind of amazing hands.