Like Beauty, the Ugly is in the eye of the beholder.
Beauty understands and incorporates ugliness. Can the ugly in its turn, ever perceive beauty?…
Really, why is modern man so ugly?
This blatant lack of personality and expression you encounter everywhere, emotional absence, those empty kind of glances, sufficiency and frightening vanity…All these countenances you see around with no trace of passion, presence or interrogative awareness…
Yes, ugliness is inarticulate and vapid, but the ugliness I talk about is ugly not because it is “ugly” but because intrinsically, IT IS ABSENCE – and Absence is neither beautiful nor ugly…
Unfortunately, vividness can hardly be described. Yet, in the nearness of Beauty
though, there is order, there is a sense of balance, a poignant and benignant vibration.
In the nearness of ugliness there is an overwhelming feeling of disproportionate inutility, disorder, unbearable flatness and appalling tastelessness.
Ugliness – the icon modernity prays to.
