Aesthetic Quotes · Page 11

If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm always interested in finding new aesthetic problems to deal with and challenge myself, even if the aesthetic problem is one of…

— Stephen Shore

The aesthetic dimension of the ideal state comes out in the idea of harmony, which is the classical idea of beauty as…

— Frederick C. Beiser

I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.

— Alton Tobey

The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.

— Edward Dmytryk

Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.

— Albert Einstein

The superhero aesthetic is all about the human form and showing the body, whether they be female or male.

— Oscar Isaac

Okay, a truly great song is a song that makes its own aesthetic intentions clear and then lives up to them and…

— Stephin Merritt

I'm not about either entertaining or instructing. The entertaining and instructing are secondary fallout from the fundamental thing, which is basically to…

— Samuel R. Delany

We all have Tumblr, and we all have Instagram and everything. People care so much about it because, now, any random can…

— Lorde

I’m interested in things which suggest the world rather than express the personality... The most conventional thing, the most ordinary - it…

— Jasper Johns

At least in part, people are attracted to subjects where they can identify at a basic level with the people who do…

— Margaret Geller

Were we to aim in every case at the kind of supreme beauty exemplified by Sta Maria della Salute, we should end…

— Roger Scruton

It's not like you're being fake, it's just the way you color it, like a guitar player uses pedals or different effects.…

— Kelly Hogan

For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm taking myself too…

— Giovanni Ribisi

If we reject the word, or any word that labels music, what's left? That's the question we should all ask ourselves. Ben…

— Vijay Iyer

In the past, people couldn't place me. They thought that I was Danish or English or French. They never got that I…

— Italo Zucchelli

The emotional, physical and aesthetic value of a sound is linked not only to the causal explanation we attribute to it but…

— Michel Chion

Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic,…

— Karen Armstrong

Originality is another criterion of aesthetic value. We may formulate an originality principle, according to which highly valuable works of art provide…

— James Young

“The ride to Alicante had been like something out of a dream, or a cheesy romance novel. The two of them astride…

— Cassandra Clare

Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what…

— Gerhard Richter

“Take delight on a woman’s pubic hair for its a signature of maturity and a secretive covenant . . . the hair…

— John Shelton Jones

I was basically 18 when I got offered to join Mister Valentine band and go on tour and leave high school. I…

— Brian Warren

The aesthetic experience has to be given. And beauty is a regular experience of every person - every person who is not…

— Peter Schjeldahl

There is an aesthetic excitement about painting which is one of the most beautiful experiences that can be. Put things down while…

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

— Steve Jobs

I feel like a lot of my aesthetic was in response to feeling the awfulness and cheapness of that [ the 70'th].

— Daniel Clowes

Doing any kind of culture in America in which you are not trying to affirm a European aesthetic is war.

— George C. Wolfe

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

— Octavio Paz

What other movement determines the S line? Its aesthetic efficacity has long been noted by artists.

— Pablo Picasso

“Humans, like flowers and animals, inhabit a form that is both functional and aesthetic.”

— Nancy Etcoff

I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.

— Josef Albers

Murakami's ability to deconstruct and his aesthetic and conceptual freedom have been totally inspiring for me.

— Virgil Abloh

It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded.

— Lewis Thomas

As a sensible actor, I can easily judge which scene looks vulgar and which will look aesthetic.

— Gautam Rode

I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a…

— Emile Hirsch

Mankind's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.

— Jerry Mander

I adore creating a wonderful environment for people who have an aesthetic sense along with wholesome family values.

— Sonja Morgan

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

— Alfred North Whitehead