What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed. — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal. — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
Mo Ostin was a great money-maker, but he had the aesthetic interest of a fire plug. — Frank Sinatra Jr Copy Share Image
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Making strides in areas unencumbered by hard-won expectation feels effervescent. By switching into child-mode, shuffling the cortex, we remember our innocence, when… — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
What you wear can largely govern your feelings and your emotions, and how you look influences the way people regard you. So… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I was struggling to figure out how to combine the abstract and the representational. Painting, I suddenly understood how that aesthetic could… — Margaux Williamson 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
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
I find that deadlines form part of the aesthetic. I don't have that "It could only have been this way" kind of… — Tom Burr Copy Share Image
Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the… — Robert McKee 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
They gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds. Tolkien became...devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity… — Christopher Tolkien Copy Share Image
I'm proud of my ability to understand what somebody else is trying to do and help them achieve it, because part of… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the central question about [Eliot] Porter's work is about the relationship between science, aesthetics, and environmental politics. His brother, the painter… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Footballers today are forced to conform to a bodily aesthetic that in its rigidity and uniformity makes fashion models look as varied… — Danny Baker Copy Share Image
I do represent a different aesthetic to drag, I have a different point of view with everything. — BeBe Zahara Benet Copy Share Image
The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge fan of Bruce Springsteen, and it's certainly not because of his politics. I just don't like the aesthetic. — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
“Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor.” — Christopher Caudwell Copy Share Image
My well-known aesthetic sense, which is so obvious and personal, spontaneously spurs me to challenge myself with different disciplines. — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Each season I strive to design a forward-thinking and effortless collection with a very clean minimalist aesthetic. — Francisco Costa Copy Share Image
I'm kind of still down with Virg Woolf on this one: "women must kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome. — Ken Baumann Copy Share Image
Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success. — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
I like the 50s, party-movie aesthetic of the beach. I'm not really into modern-day beach. — Bethany Cosentino Copy Share Image
What cinema can do is the reordering of this reality from a certain chaos or from a certain order into an aesthetic… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
It's really been important for me for all these years to stay with my aesthetic - the everyday classic piece that you're… — Jennifer Meyer Copy Share Image
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