#deform

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#beautiful #beauty #called #confused #confusion

There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot. ↗

— L. Sprague de Camp

#child #deformed #dismay #face #heard

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

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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