Elvis Costello Quotes

The moment when one thing turns into another is the most beautiful moment. A combination of sounds turns into music. And that applies to everything.

The moment of change is the only poem.

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go.

The butterfly lures us not only because he is beautiful, but because he is transitory. The caterpillar is uglier, but in him we can regard the better joy of becoming.

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

Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

This is a woman [Hillary Clinton] who for many of her 52 years never cared a fig about her appearance, but in the chrysalis of transformation from political wife to independent woman, the jawline has been chiseled, the dominatrix eyebrows weeded, the weight dropped, and the result is a woman who obviously enjoys for the first time being called beautiful.

In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn't yetappeared, he should begin to anticipate it, wait for it, dream about it, prepare for it. To achieve this, he has to see and know more than did his grandfather and father.

There was something striking about her posture; something about the tilt to her head. She was like a beautiful and lonely piece of art, lovely but unreachable.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.

The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.

Comfort is everything. You start doing something and you want it to be perfect right away, but most babies are born ugly and then they shake it out and you get beautiful toddlers.

Staring at her face, she began to fancy her outer layer had begun to melt away while she wasn't paying attention, and something -- some new skeleton -- was emerging from beneath the softness of her accustomed self. With a deep, visceral ache, she wished her true form might prove to be a sleek and shining one, like a stiletto blade slicing free of an ungainly sheath. Like a bird of prey losing its hatchling fluff to hunt in cold, magnificent skies. That she might become something glittering, something startling, something dangerous.

Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young, / The young are beautiful--but the old are more beautiful than the young.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

You’re my change of skin / my summer-winter-fall / I spring to follow you / this loss is beautiful.

Presume not that I am the thing I was.

Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.

Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to insure their places in the world.

If your career is not predicated on just your physical beauty, you're able to project a sophistication. You can take sophisticated to your grave. You can be that worldly woman, that woman who looks beautiful dressed up.

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.

Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.

When I wear a silk scarf I never feel so definitely like a woman, a beautiful woman