„It is our destiny to be born beautiful into an ugly age.“

— Henry Rollins

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„It just goes to show you: every baby is born beautiful.It's what we project on them that makes them ugly.“
— Jodi Picoult
„Stay beautiful, keep it ugly.“
— Nikki Sixx
„Because so many of our writers were born in ugly environments, in monstrous poverty and humilitation, they continue to assert that this is the natural environment, reality, and that beauty is artifice. Why should the natural state be ugliness? Natural to whom? We may be born in ugliness, but the natural consequences should be a thirst for its opposite. To mistake ugliness for reality is one of the frauds of the realistic school. A hunger for the unknown, and an aspiration towards beauty were inseparable from civilization. In America the word art was distorted to mean artificial.We are born with the power to alter what we are given at birth.When the Japanese paint flowers or the sea on a kimono they mean to establish a link with nature. But they select only what is beautiful in nature to maintain their love of life.The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything. That is the deepest meaning of rebellion, not the wearing of different clothes, haircuts, or the adopting of other cultures.“
— Anaïs Nin
„the beautiful are found in the edge of a roomcrumpled into spiders and needles and silenceand we can never understand why theyleft, they were sobeautiful.they dont make it,the beautiful die youngand leave the ugly to their ugly lives.“
— Charles Bukowski
„His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.“
— Hans Christian Andersen