„I think a beautiful product that doesn't work very well is ugly.“

Vanity Fair: "Jonathan Ives Shares Three Lessons He Learned From Steve Jobs" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/tech/2014/10/jony-ive-lessons-from-steve-jobs (9 October 2014)

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Jonathan Ive

britischer Designer 1967

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— John Fowles, buch The Collector

Quelle: The Collector

„Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.“

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— B. W. Powe Canadian writer 1955

Maxims and Enigmas, p. 29
Towards a Canada of Light (2006)

„A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.“

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— Simone Weil, buch Waiting for God

Quelle: Waiting for God

„The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.“

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— John Cage American avant-garde composer 1912 - 1992

„I simultaneously believe that languages are wonderful and awful. You have to hold both of those. Ugly things can be beautiful. And beautiful can get ugly very fast. You know, take Lisp. You know, it's the most beautiful language in the world. At least up until Haskell came along. (laughter) But, you know, every program in Lisp is just ugly. I don't figure how that works.“

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— Larry Wall American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl 1954

Public Talks, "Present Continuous - Future Perfect"

„Out of ugly, I think the most important thing to do in life is to make something beautiful.“

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— Johnny Weir figure skater 1984

Quelle: Behind The Spangles, Weir Is A Man In Full, Trey Graham, National Public Radio, 2010-02-26 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124121023&ft=1&f=1008, ; In response to gibes from Quebec sports announcers

„The world of architecture – and of works conceived for architecture – tends towards beauty. True beauty tends towards ugliness and panic.“

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— Bram van Velde Dutch painter 1895 - 1981

short quotes, May 1972; p. 87
1970's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1970 - 1972)

„When asked his opinion of pragmatism, Morgenbesser replied "It's all very well in theory but it doesn't work in practice."“

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— Sidney Morgenbesser American philosopher 1921 - 2004

The Times, Sidney Morgenbesser: Erudite and influential American linguistic philosopher with the analytical acuity of Spinoza and the blunt wit of Groucho Marx https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sidney-morgenbesser-5cz8gg8qfvm, September 8, 2004.

„Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused“

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— Baruch Spinoza Dutch philosopher 1632 - 1677

„Do you think that you're beautiful?
Inside or outside? Mmmmm… outside I don't think about that too much because I realise that's all very superficial. I'm more concerned about inside, and inside I think I'm alright… I'm OK inside. I don't think I'm perfect and I don't call myself beautiful but I'm definitely not ugly inside. I've got friends who aren't that so called pleasant to look at but inside I think they're beautiful.“

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— Kim Wilde English pop singer 1960

[http://www.kimwilde.com/articles/1981/00244/ New Musical Express (19 September 1981)
Interviews

„A beautiful woman can make herself
look ugly in the eyes of a man if she is very insecure.“

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— Sherry Argov American writer 1977

Quelle: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

„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.“

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— Baruch Spinoza Dutch philosopher 1632 - 1677

„When you think that you are beautiful, you are liable to think that you are more beautiful than others, and such a thought is not a beautiful thought. To recognize or criticise ugliness and inferiority in others is to create the inferior and the ugly in yourself, and what you create in yourself will sooner or later be expressed through your mind and personality.“

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— Christian D. Larson Prolific author of metaphysical and New Thought books 1874 - 1962

Quelle: Your Forces and How to Use Them (1912), Chapter 7, p. 115–116

„Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare.“

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— Ernest Hemingway, buch Wem die Stunde schlägt

Quelle: For Whom the Bell Tolls

„The words are not the same and the feeling is not the same. You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman. She is either beautiful or faithful. So it’s better when she’s beautiful because when she’s too faithful it might be very ugly. This is French people. This translation, though, is very well made. This is my American editor, who knows me very well who has made the translation. But in any translation you lose a little bit.“

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— Marjane Satrapi Artist 1969

On her views regarding the translation of works in “AN INTERVIEW WITH MARJANE SATRAPI” http://www.bookslut.com/features/2004_10_003261.php in Book Slut (October 2004)

„The works of the great writers of the past are very beautiful even from without. And yet their visible beauty is sheer ugliness, compared with the beauty of those hidden treasures which disclose themselves only after very long, never easy, but always pleasant work. This always difficult but always pleasant work is, I believe, what the philosophers had in mind when they recommended education. Education, they felt, is the only answer to the always pressing question, to the political question par excellence, of how to reconcile order which is not oppression with freedom which is not license.“

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— Leo Strauss, buch Persecution and the Art of Writing

Quelle: Persecution and the Art of Writing (1952), Persecution and the Art of Writing, p. 37

„The hardest thing these days is to make something that’s beautiful; it’s easy to make ugly art. I think it takes a lot more talent to make something beautiful. Beauty to me is when you show something to someone that they’ve never seen before. That’s what a great work of art does; it shows you something that you didn’t know existed.“

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— Gronk (artist) American artist 1954

On making beautiful artwork in “Gronk by Marisela Norte” https://bombmagazine.org/articles/gronk/ in BOMB Magazine (2007 Jan 1)