Aesthetic Quotes · Page 8

I love to read theories without ever using them when working... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also…

— Ernst Haas

In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.

— Clarice Lispector

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.

— Arthur Erickson

Design is a matter of balancing different needs and outlooks-practical and aesthetic, masculine and feminine, designer and client, dream and reality.

— Alexa Hampton

Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that…

— Milan Kundera

For though, in nature, depth and height Are equally held infinite: In poetry, the height we know; 'Tis only infinite below.

— Jonathan Swift

I try to bring as much taste, smartness, quality, functionality, and aesthetic qualities to everyday clothes.

— Christophe Lemaire

In the end, I believe that the most important influence on my aesthetic has been the photographs I have taken.

— Roger Ballen

According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated…

— Walter Kirn

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

The distinction between a gallery and a museum is enormous. The gallery is about looking at a thing of beauty; the purpose…

— Neil MacGregor

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

Physicists use 'God' as a metaphor more often than other scientists-- especially in popular writing, but in the technical literature as well.…

— Taner Edis

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

"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

Elephant and Piggie have a very large input. They have a distinct aesthetic taste. They like books that are philosophical. They like…

— Mo Willems

Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic…

— Harold Bloom

These are things that only dogs and women understand because we tap into the pain directly, we connect to pain directly from…

— Garth Stein

It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values - the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell…

— John Updike

“The mind provides a person with the mental fortitude to survive any physical or spiritual crisis. For the present time, I am…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

The culture and educational system of the contemporary West are based almost exclusively upon the training of the reasoning brain and, to…

— Kallistos Ware

Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed…

— Alain Badiou

Since the Greeks the predominant attitude of thinkers towards intellectual activity was to glorify it insofar as (like aesthetic activity) it finds…

— Julien Benda

“As an aesthetic phenomenon existence is still bearable for us,57 and art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all…

— Mike White

I think objectifying women is not wrong if only her beauty is captured in an aesthetic manner.

— Kriti Kharbanda

I stick with a '60s vintage aesthetic of letterman's jackets, plain T-shirts, and good jeans.

— G-Eazy

Usually, working out is about aesthetics - six-pack abs and biceps and pecs - instead of true functionality. True function has a…

— Laird Hamilton

If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.

— Asger Jorn

The blue-collar culture, it's not really a buttoned-up aesthetic. It's a heavy-labor thing because you're, like, sweating.

— Virgil Abloh

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

— Manuel Puig

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It's just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style.

— Yigal Azrouel

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is…

— Anonymous

The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.

— Havelock Ellis

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Even before I had ever seen 'Beach Blanket Babylon,' I had a similar aesthetic: colorful and sparkly.

— Chris March

I want big ideas to have aesthetic relevance. I want to tickle people's intellectual sensibilities and instill a sense of wonder.

— Jason Silva

Which even though we do have a very visual aesthetic and identity, we love it when people make their own videos to…

— Lizzy Plapinger

Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an…

— Joyce Carol Oates