Modernity is the ensemble of changes - intellectual, political, economic, social, cultural, technological, aesthetic - that have altered the world drastically since… — George Scialabba Copy Share Image
The beautiful is and remains beautiful though it arouse no emotion whatever, and though there be no one to look at it.… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
Worship in truth is worship that arises out of an actual encounter with God, a response to the experience of knowing God's… — Graham Kendrick Copy Share Image
Inner experience ... is not easily accessible and, viewed from the outside by intelligence, it would even be necessary to see in… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
High-class kitsch may well be "perfect" in its form and and composition: the academic painters were often masters of their craft. Thus,… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
When Hume insists that taste is a matter of delicacy, that it is a matter of having a sensitivity to features of… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the kind is… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
To all appearances the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the… — Verlyn Klinkenborg Copy Share Image
“We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
...a major triumph of mathematical imagination: the use of visual imagery to condense a large quantity of information into a single comprehensible… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far… — Russell Page Copy Share Image
I would almost consider myself a canonical child of Generation X... because I think there is an ethic and aesthetic that goes… — Mark Pesce Copy Share Image
Does the unmistakeable intent of Versailles to proclaim dominion over nature destroy its aesthetic appeal, as Schopenhauer thought? Does the greenness of… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
And, in the future, while the dumb show of bohemianism plays itself out in the cookie cutter shape of the politically correct… — Adam Parfrey Copy Share Image
I must pack my short lifer full of interesting events and creative activity. Philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. I intend… — Everett Ruess Copy Share Image
It's like, say you're a dancer and you've been studying modern dance your whole life so you're used to a certain aesthetic… — Jlin Copy Share Image
Look, if you have a problem with distilling the Battle of Thermopylae down to freedom versus tyranny, you need to read Herodotus… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
The most intelligent hearers are those who enjoy most heartily the simplest preaching. It is not they who clamor for superlatively intellectual… — Austin Phelps Copy Share Image
When you're spending that much time by yourself in your car looking at landscapes, it's desolate. Most of the other people around… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the possibility of… — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Let the women play in more feminine clothes like they do in volleyball. They could, for example, have tighter shorts. Female players… — Sepp Blatter Copy Share Image
The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and trying stuff out on stage,… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
Evidence that [feminine aesthetic preferences and ways of expressing oneself] may be hardwired comes from the fact that they typically appear early… — Julia Serano Copy Share Image
There was this interesting quote: try and live your life without fear and desire. It's this concept that's like when you look… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its… — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If I was asked to get rid of the Zen aesthetic and just keep one quality necessary to create art, I would… — John Daido Loori Copy Share Image
At a certain point in history monuments became associated with kitsch, (it had never previously been so) and one might well ask… — Gillo Dorfles Copy Share Image
"Girly" can be limiting if you're told it's the only option. I don't think the solution is to get rid of the… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
What liberates the imagination is the sense that work in its theory and practice holds aesthetic possibilities, that jobs can be elegantly… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
You can't compare us, but I do think that Calvin Klein influenced his way of working. Calvin created this whole aesthetic with… — Francisco Costa Copy Share Image
For me it's really important that the work here displays an aesthetic of decay along with the sunken boat with the broken… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
![“Look, if you have a problem with distilling the Battle of Thermopylae down to freedom versus tyranny, you need to read Herodotus because he's the one. It's his fault, not modern culture's fault. He did it.' [Victor Davis Hanson] references a lot of things like that because he feels like the spirit…” quote by Zack Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/954/zack-snyder-7129_aesthetic_look-if-you-have-a-problem-with-distilli_3143027.jpg)
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