Aesthetic Quotes · Page 12

Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.

— John Dewey

I was also always interested in the aesthetic realm - architecture and that kind of stuff - but music was my first…

— St. Lucia

On the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry.

— Bocafloja

Ezra Pound was a pioneer of the most exciting aesthetic movement of the 20th century.

— Ash Sarkar

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction.

— Steven Soderbergh

Do you really expect me to say gravity hasn't taken its toll? No. But as I'm earning these lines [in my face],…

— Susan Sarandon

My aesthetic is pretty classic. I like to keep things simple but appreciate the details.

— Jessica Jung

My biggest thing is to teach not to focus on the aesthetic. It's really about who you are, and the human being,…

— Anonymous

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that…

— Alan Cumming

You're not going to stay in business, the business of making movies very long because you need the resources in order to…

— George Lucas

I have never collected an object or figure from Africa or Oceania because of anything curious about it or because of its…

— Frank Crowninshield

I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me…

— M. C. Escher

The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness--too often forced and false: it…

— Edith Wharton

I maintain that the expression of junk and objects has an intrinsic value, and I see no need to look for aesthetic…

— Arman

I don't make records that way, where I'm trying to please the marketplace or anything. Not because I have anything against that,…

— Anonymous

Artists who have produced experimental innovations have been motivated by aesthetic criteria: they have aimed at presenting visual perceptions. Their goals are…

— David Galenson

McWorld is a product of popular culture driven by expansionist commerce. Its template is American, its form style. Its goods are as…

— Benjamin Barber

Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was…

— Steve Martin

In avant garde drama ... primitivism goes hand in hand with aesthetic experimentation designed to advance the technical progress of the art…

— C. D. Innes

Eisner mentioned he was uncomfortable calling Kirby someone with heavy artistic intent. I paraphrase, but Eisner felt Jack was mostly concerned with…

— Glen David Gold

Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as…

— Hermann Weyl

It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal…… Great art remains stable and unobscure because the…

— Clive Bell

I love jazz. So to me, there are two main types of jazz. There's dancing jazz, and then there's listening jazz. Listening…

— Lupe Fiasco

I don't spend time thinking about an aesthetic out of which I create or an ideal toward which my body of work…

— Albert Goldbarth

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

— Stephen Gardiner

I have always considered the aesthetic of a project, including press photos, as a means to further the message of the art…

— Vivek Shraya

I typically go for a more classic aesthetic, though I like to contrast that with bold statement pieces throughout my house.

— Karlie Kloss

I think the feeling of being kind of overwhelmed is almost part of the aesthetic of the work.

— David Maisel

To live well is to live in harmony with ourselves, others and nature, and that idea of harmony is, of course, an…

— Frederick C. Beiser

A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written.

— Morris Kline

You just have to have the right gear and a few people to put you in motion with a good aesthetic and…

— Andrew Wight

The aesthetic, as I understand it, is really about the way in which we understand beauty and speak and think about beauty.

— Kwame Dawes

There's nowhere that looks like Singapore; it's absolutely beautiful on a purely aesthetic level.

— Lisa Joy

Actors are embracing a new aesthetic, which is leaning more toward truthful and simple and direct, as opposed to what we would…

— William H. Macy

We all appreciated a certain aesthetic, and with that appreciation came a certain stylized presence.

— Amber Heard

Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.

— Richard Dawkins

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

— Clive Bell

It is an extremely difficult task to make an entertaining movie, which is completely aesthetic and you can watch again and again.

— Farah Khan

It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like.

— St. Vincent