“No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly”
“The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful?”
“Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.”
“My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see”
“-I looked at his beautiful face. “So I guess that means I’m the ugly one.”- ”
“I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.”