The fans, the vampire groupies, love the idea of this androgynous, preternatural figure stalking the night, and craving aesthetic pleasure just as… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
For example, you have these grotesque, hilarious, profane ghosts in the book [Lincoln in the Bardo]. Even the concept of talking ghosts… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
Staying true to my vision, to the word as it comes to me, to my own aesthetic judgments, even when they disagree… — Micheline Aharonian Marcom Copy Share Image
Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
I really like Pam Grier's whole 'Coffy' aesthetic. It's just natural. It's not even anything that they were overdoing back then. I… — Megan Thee Stallion Copy Share Image
Kitsch parodies catharsis...It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
A woman’s beauty lies, not in any exaggeration of the specialized zones, nor in any general harmony that could be worked out… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We are devastated to learn of the death of Alexander McQueen, one of the greatest talents of his generation. He brought a… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
Give people pride and they'll live on bread and water, bless their exploiters, and even die for them. Self-surrender is a transaction… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Writing is the act of creation. Put words on page. Words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to 7-book epic fantasy cycles… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
“With time, the racism spread to more and more cultural arenas. American aesthetic culture was built around white standards of beauty. The… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“But aesthetic value does not rise from the work's apparent ability to predict a future: we do not admire Cézanne because of… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
I've always identified people's taste in music as being kind of hetero and/or homo - there's music people like because they feel… — Owen Pallett Copy Share Image
I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the… — Jeremy Northam Copy Share Image
I think it is the responsibility of critics to rely less strenuously on, to use a Hollywood phrase, "what they can live… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
I feel like I am just an entertainer. It does not matter what form I take to perform and entertain. I think… — BeBe Zahara Benet Copy Share Image
The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I come from a culture that was isolated for a long time - I have my own story to tell, in my… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
I love going somewhere like Japan where you can't understand a word of the advertising - you just see it for its… — Stanley Donwood Copy Share Image
How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashion's… — Coco Rocha Copy Share Image
Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two-dimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sans-serifs,… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
Aesthetic culture is not the high-road to all the virtues, and, indeed, certain of the vices have been known to infest it.… — Lewis Foreman Day Copy Share Image
It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with universal therefore… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
“Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen;… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Don't forget that costumes, like dreams, are symbolic communication. Dreams teach us that a language for everything exists - for every object,… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
The temptation to believe that the Universe is the product of some sort of design, a manifestation of subtle aesthetic and mathematical… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
I try to get the hip-hop aesthetic, most times without an MC. I don't use a rapper or a DJ to give… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles… — Calvin Seerveld Copy Share Image
Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
![“For example, you have these grotesque, hilarious, profane ghosts in the book [Lincoln in the Bardo]. Even the concept of talking ghosts is, from an aesthetic point of view, grotesque. But you seem compelled by that risk in order to get to the other end of the equation.” quote by Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cf1/zadie-smith-584_aesthetic_for-example-you-have-these-grotesque-hil_2386734.jpg)
