“A door is not just an entry—it’s the first impression of a space and the statement of your style.” — AspireDoors Copy Share Image
“No man sings as beautifully as when his song is accompanied by a woman’s voice.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
When you make work, the concept is the basis for it; all choices of aesthetics or mediums come later. — Doug Aitken Copy Share Image
To me there is an intimate relationship between austerity and more lush aesthetics. They're two faces of the same coin. — Sally Potter Copy Share Image
An agricultural landscape produces food but it also provides water, requires biodiversity to underpin soil function, pollination and other useful services, and… — Tim Benton Copy Share Image
I want to teach [people] the secret of great visual presentation. Your stomach sees the food first, and I want to help… — Wolfgang Puck Copy Share Image
When I paint I do a different thing than when I design. But both involve aesthetics, both involve thought, both involve planning. — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
[Alexei Nemov] has the best feel for the aesthetics of the sport. He doesn't just do a skill; he makes it look… — Peter Vidmar Copy Share Image
There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at… — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one's sensitivity, one's respect, one's reverence for life. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
“The philosophical study of beauty, art, and the splendor of nature nurtures a person’s fertile mind by exposing a person to the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every… — Jan Koum Copy Share Image
Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
“Cyril: surely you would acknowledge that art expresses the temper of its age, the spirit of its time, the moral and social… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It sometimes happens that you just know... You have a feeling that things are coinciding, and that they operate and work on… — Paolo Pellegrin Copy Share Image
Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his conscious reflection,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the world,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
..I sought a world philosophy-or an integral philosophy-that would believably weave together the many pluralistic contexts of science, morals, aesthetics, Eastern as… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“Were they aware, in the intensity of their embrace, of something slightly ridiculous about this tableau, something almost comical, as someone nearby… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
“Now I myself, I cheerfully admit, feel that enormity in Kensington Gardens as something quite natural. I feel it so because I… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The very notion that beauty is something we need to be protected from is insulting. [...] When you watch Olympic athletes in… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
“The goal of all principled people is to recognize truth. Simple or complex thoughts and feelings standing alone rarely express any universal… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Finer feeling, which we now wish to consider, is chiefly of two kinds: the feeling of the *sublime* and that of the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Truth is beheld by the intellect which is appeased by the most satisfying relations of the intelligible; beauty is beheld by the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Domination has its own aesthetics, and democratic domination has its democratic aesthetics. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again. — Ben Shneiderman Copy Share Image
“The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.” — Annie Cohen-Solal Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making. — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice. — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
“But from the perspective of aesthetics, I must be right and the universe must be wrong.” — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“He had never believed that spirituality had to be anemic or aesthetic. ” — Irving Stone Copy Share Image