Behind the aesthetic form lies the repressed harmony of sensuousness and reason — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I am a person who holds the aesthetic high. I have suits made in Savile Row. — Gary Kemp Copy Share Image
All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Any aesthetic quality is usually enhanced by the presence of a counterpoint.” — Matthew Frederick Copy Share Image
Light has an evident, functional and aesthetic impact on our lives. — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones. — Andres Serrano Copy Share Image
Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
“Art is, in its purity, an aesthetic means of expression in a time of rising neglect.” — Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann Copy Share Image
The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
We can tolerate great diversity in our aesthetic beliefs, but we can't tolerate much diversity in our moral beliefs. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that… — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
All I can say about the work I try to do, is that the aesthetic is in reality itself. — Helen Levitt Copy Share Image
In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
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
Beauty has never been an important topic in the writings of the major psychologists. In fact, for Jung, aesthetics is a weak,… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I think that there is a purity aesthetic, like "I just make art because I'm an artist and I can't help it.… — Mirah Copy Share Image
It's [Into the Badlands] something that's very, very different and I think that's why it divided critics initially because they didn't understand… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
The Japanese garden is a very important tool in Japanese architectural design because, not only is a garden traditionally included in any… — E. J. W. Barber Copy Share Image
I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum… — Dylan McDermott Copy Share Image
Having Alexei Ratmansky create a new Romeo and Juliet for The National Ballet of Canada to mark our 60th anniversary is a… — Karen Kain Copy Share Image
“useful, or believe to be beautiful." Thus said the godfather of the Arts & Crafts movement, William Morris. Anyone who has ever… — Dan Saffer Copy Share Image
An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image