It is the adage of any creative thing; it looks terrible, it is an ugly baby, until the very last second.
I think a beautiful product that doesn’t work very well is ugly.
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, – light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.
All my music is driven by an urge to connect with people, to share with them in the experience of being human – the good, the bad, and the ugly!
