Joshua Bell Quotes

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

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.

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.

Art is science in the flesh.

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.

It's too bad our society isn't further along.

There is nothing that is more beautiful than everything else in the world.

Ugliness is a lack of harmony, assuredly. And evil is the same thing of course.

Industry is the root of all ugliness.

Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.