My fascination for studies proved highly beneficial, it assisted the development of my aesthetic understanding of chess, and improved my endgame play. — Vasily Smyslov Copy Share Image
Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism. — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions.… — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression. — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it's very important for the spirit and therefore the health. — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. — Samuel Copy Share Image
I always just been a fan of the music... and the aesthetic only in an abstract sense. — Colin Marston Copy Share Image
When I say Afro-American aesthetic, I'm not just talking about the United States, I'm talking about the Americas. People in the Latin… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
If sorrow and beauty are all tied up together, then perhaps maturity brings with it not what Nabhan calls abstraction, but an… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The great problem was the selection of the readymade. I needed to choose an object without it impressing me: that is to… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
The aesthetic value of creation cannot be overlooked. Our very contact with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The Art Deco movement, architecture from that period and sort of the industrial aesthetic from that period. Art Deco meets tribal kind… — Pamela Love Copy Share Image
I'm steeped in aesthetic theory, so I tend to bring in my own amateurish way of baring a little bit - when,… — John Maus Copy Share Image
The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause “the West… — Christopher McCandless Copy Share Image
When objects are presented within the context of art (and until recently objects always have been used) they are as eligible for… — Joseph Kosuth Copy Share Image
Often, we try to repair broken things in such a way as to conceal the repair and make it “good as new.”… — Teresita Fernandez Copy Share Image
After illuminating the work of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Louise Bourgeois, Balthus, and other modern artists, Mieke Bal again demonstrates her extraordinary flair for… — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that… — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
Fine things in wood are important, not only aesthetically, as oddities or rarities, but because we are becoming aware of the fact… — James Krenov Copy Share Image
Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Our entire being is fashioned as an instrument of praise. Just as a master violin maker designs an instrument to produce maximum… — Lamar Boschman Copy Share Image
I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
Thankfully, I had my mom, so growing up I'd see her really embody the Y2K aesthetic in its truest form. — Ice Spice Copy Share Image
Our look evolved from the fact that we bought thrift-store clothes. It wasn't like, 'Let adopt a thrift-store aesthetic.' We just didn't… — Fred Schneider Copy Share Image
Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I do feel like the blogs that I follow share an aesthetic and draw a lot from '90s influences. — Lauren Jauregui Copy Share Image
It's odd that there is a high level of appreciation of nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Dramas need to have a certain aesthetic that comedy just doesn't really seem to need to have. — Rob McElhenney Copy Share Image
There are the aesthetic pressures for a woman to be pretty and sexy, but not sexual or have desires beyond winning a… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact. — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem. — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.' — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
