Mason Cooley Quotes

Good taste is death; vulgarity is life.

Ugliness without tact is horrible.

Elegance and beauty have been banished.

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

The Nation’s most conspicuous vulgarian

I abhor mere prettiness.

We're all trying so hard to be beautiful, but the people in 'Kuso' are trying so hard to be disgusting.

Mushy novels, pretty pictures, pretty sculpture, decorations on the wall, nice parallel lines - make me sick.

Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.

There is nothing truly beautiful but that which can never be of any use whatsoever; everything useful is ugly, for it is the expression of some need, and man's needs are ignoble and disgusting like his own poor and infirm nature. The most useful place in a house is the water-closet.

We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it.

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.

It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.

Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.

Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul

Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth.

Simplicity is a matter of taste

...of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.

When you mix dirt with water, the dirt doesn't get clean. The water just gets dirty.

Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.

When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit.

Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.

Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.