You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you. As long as you demand to be loved, there is no love in you; and if you feel no love, you are ugly, brutish, so why should you be loved? Without love you are a dead thing; and when the dead thing asks for love, it is still dead. Whereas, if your heart is full of love, then you never ask to be loved, you never put out your begging bowl for someone to fill it.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti in Think on These Things
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
—James Baldwin
What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you're so ugly on the inside?
—Jess C. Scott in I'm Pretty
My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.
—Raoul Dufy
Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
—Halifax
Always live in the ugliest house on the street—then you don't have to look at it.
—David Hockney
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
—Honoré de Balzac
I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.
—Otto Dix