Lady Bird Johnson Quotes

Reform is not a period of retreat.

We have to change.

A little makeover never hurt nobody.

You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

If you want change, you have to offer change.

We have shaken things up when necessary.

Reform starts here.

I am a friend to the reformation generally of whatever can be made better

A little renovation and reinvention is a positive thing.

Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.

A change is always nice.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

I like to aestheticize every possible thing that can be aestheticized.

I want to change a lot.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

Only ugliness is obscene.

I like the things around me to be beautiful and slightly dreamy, with a feeling of worldliness.

The point of the essay is to change things.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

The mandate given to me was one of change.

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.