I certainly think there are things that impressed me as a child about the church. The smells and the sounds and the… — Jonathan Meiburg Copy Share Image
You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
"Based on a true story" is a come-on, the aesthetic equivalent of "no loan request refused." For, at best, the creator has… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Physicists use 'God' as a metaphor more often than other scientists-- especially in popular writing, but in the technical literature as well.… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation,… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Every movie that I'm in is very different in terms of aesthetic and costume. I mean, from 'Mirror, Mirror' to 'Mortal Instruments,'… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
“Take delight on a woman’s pubic hair for its a signature of maturity and a secretive covenant . . . the hair… — John Shelton Jones Copy Share Image
McWorld is a product of popular culture driven by expansionist commerce. Its template is American, its form style. Its goods are as… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
“The ride to Alicante had been like something out of a dream, or a cheesy romance novel. The two of them astride… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Originality is another criterion of aesthetic value. We may formulate an originality principle, according to which highly valuable works of art provide… — James Young Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The emotional, physical and aesthetic value of a sound is linked not only to the causal explanation we attribute to it but… — Michel Chion Copy Share Image
The distinction between a gallery and a museum is enormous. The gallery is about looking at a thing of beauty; the purpose… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Some people', Miss R. said,'run to conceits or wisdom but I hold to the hard, brown, nutlike word. I might point out… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Wine is a chemical symphony. and The Aesthetic differentiation of Chesapeake Bay oysters and Olympia oysters occurs only after we can really… — Maynard Amerine Copy Share Image
“The mystery of esthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the god of the creation, remains within or… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Good design is a great combination of common sense, unusual imagination, clarity of purpose–with a prerequisite knowledge of structure, values, color, aesthetic… — Millard Sheets Copy Share Image
Not one person would admit that they didn't want me to wear a bikini because of their aesthetic preference - a preference… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
I don't think that a white woman is in denial when she dyes her hair blonde. And I actually think we are… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
The Oriental approach to violence is a much more aesthetic and poetic approach, whereas in the western world, violence is put in… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Design doesn't have to be daunting. Some people really find it challenging to take on their entire home, because they don't know… — Bobby Berk Copy Share Image
Inaudible prayers, particularly of the Canon, which at first don't seem to have anything to do with music, end up being a… — Richard Morris Copy Share Image
I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I maintain that the expression of junk and objects has an intrinsic value, and I see no need to look for aesthetic… — Arman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Artists who have produced experimental innovations have been motivated by aesthetic criteria: they have aimed at presenting visual perceptions. Their goals are… — David Galenson Copy Share Image
Steve Jobs was the greatest manufacturer of consumer products of his age. His marketing vision put him on par with Henry Ford,… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
I tend to lean toward a more minimal aesthetic, so when I use wallpapers in my interiors, I like for one or… — Bobby Berk Copy Share Image
“Without aesthetic, design is either the humdrum repetition of familiar clichés or a wild scramble for novelty. Without the aesthetic, the computer… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
The important thing to understand is that the case for pollution control isn't based on some kind of aesthetic distaste for industrial… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
What I loved about the 1950s is that there is an aesthetic to even the average film. The way the camera is… — Vikramaditya Motwane Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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