As part of a generation raised to think you are beautiful no matter what they say, no matter what you do, imagine the difficulty of admitting that, actually, you've done a very ugly thing.
"It certainly hasn't gotten more beautiful," Mr. Morris muses, matter-of-factly, "but the punk rock thing was never a beautiful thing".
Remember that you are beautiful, no matter what you look like, beauty comes from acceptance.
Thank God for the '60s, when black was suddenly beautiful, no matter the shade.
"Football," they used to say in Germany, "is the most beautiful minor matter in the world".
"I am beautiful, no matter what they say — words can't bring me down," goes the chorus.
Salvatore had just sold me some beautiful plant matter and it was in a covered ceramic dish on the table in front of the couch.
Baldessari took the pictures, shooting through the window of his car "with the idea that truth is beautiful, no matter how ugly it is".
He let her know, too, that she was beautiful no matter what was lost, including both her energy and a breast.
By maintaining that women are beautiful no matter what they have on, she cleverly has her devotees standing a little taller and looking a little better, even when they are basically naked.
