Aesthetic Quotes · Page 9

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

— Friedrich Schiller

“Aesthetic sense is the twin of one's instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics.”

— Joseph Brodsky

I think I probably have a fairly signature style - I tend to have a certain aesthetic - although I try to…

— Kari Skogland

I can't really change the games I like to make, and I can't change my own particular aesthetic.

— Kim Swift

Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.

— Daniel Tammet

Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.

— James Russell Lowell

I think the things that I enjoy most about directing theater, or works that are really visceral in terms of comedy and…

— Alex Timbers

The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites,

— Eli Siegel

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only…

— Franz Grillparzer

And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But…

— Patricia Clarkson

Artaud sought to remove aesthetic distance, bringing the audience into direct contact with the dangers of life. By turning theatre into a…

— Antonin Artaud

Even so, the major feeling and thought that I'd like them to keep in mind is the aesthetic ability of such a…

— Martine Epoque

The best stroked putt in a lifetime does not bring the aesthetic satisfaction of a perfectly hit wood or iron shot. There…

— Al Barkow

I certainly think there are things that impressed me as a child about the church. The smells and the sounds and the…

— Jonathan Meiburg

Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really…

— Francis Bacon

Men=earthbound creatures, living in communities, endowed with common sense, sensus communis, a community sense; not autonomous, needing each other’s company even for…

— Hannah

Opera contains music that reflects a culture of poetry and aesthetic. Spirituals are no different. What separates a spiritual for me is…

— Measha Brueggergosman

Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity…

— Oscar Wilde

The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a…

— Thorstein Veblen

We exist because of suburbia. Suburbia is a freak’s dreamworld, a world of extra rooms upstairs and long, lazy afternoons with no…

— Dana Spiotta

A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if…

— Marcel Proust

Naturally looking at something will become so important in your aesthetic. For that, you have to be disciplined, too, in the way…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is an assumption that there is always one single dimension for assessing persons and their actions that has canonical priority. This…

— Raymond Geuss

[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.

— Ai Weiwei

The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.

— Steven Weinberg

Cycling is based so much on form, on aesthetics, on class - the way you carry yourself on the bike, the sort…

— David Millar

My ideal is a book that is perfect on every page, that gives you tremendous aesthetic joy on every page. I suppose…

— James Salter

I'm intrigued with figuring out the places [where] the horrible and the beautiful meet - that aesthetic fascinates me.

— Neil Gaiman

Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes.

— Willard Van Orman Quine

...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.

— Paul Simon

I didn't want to be a one-hit wonder. I really wanted to make albums that had a different aesthetic every album and…

— Yung Lean

I would describe my aesthetic as definitely personal and harmonious with an eclectic yet bohemian sensibility.

— Lisa Marie Presley

I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic.

— Stephen Bayley

I think the New Aesthetic is a series of observations. I think most of the trouble people have had with it comes…

— Warren Ellis

The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the…

— Helena Christensen

“Poetry is the icon-stasis on which a desire for aesthetic ecstasy illustrates itself endlessly.”

— the mag man

I'm attracted to the rag & bone aesthetic - classic and effortless with an edge.

— Haley Bennett

Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.

— Roger Scruton

Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art.

— Fred Ross