#deform

Take lights and deform them as brutally as you can. ↗

— Kurt Schwitters

#brutality #creativity #deform #art

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#beauty #because #contains #deformities #disproportion

Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#deformity #secrets #ugliness #beauty

Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind. ↗

— King Hussein I

#depleted #mind #personality #reduced #stagnant

His modesty amounts to deformity. ↗

— Margot Asquith

#his #modesty

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#ever #his #law #man #nature

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#did #ever #first #hardly #light

Art is significant deformity. ↗

— Roger Fry

#deformity #significant

Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back? ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#back #bargains #been #benefit #carry

The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#character #deformed #human #once #opens