Ruth Negga Quotes

Style is objective, akin to art, so it varies.

Art doesn't interest me. Only artists interest me.

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

Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

Beauty does not mean one thing but not something else.

The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.

Accent the ugly until it becomes gorgeous.

Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

People said making clothes inside out was not proper. I disagreed, because clothes that are inside out are as beautiful as a cathedral.

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

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.

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

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.

For me, fashion is not about reality.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Taste is the feminine of genius.

The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.

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

Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.