Art shouldn't be only the aesthetics we hang on the wall, but a dynamic to shape the society. — Genco Gulan Copy Share Image
Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When I was little, I just was very tuned in to the functionality and aesthetics of things around me. — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Normative Economics is like religion without the aesthetics.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Desire for beauty will endure and undermine the desire for truth.” — Richard O. Prum Copy Share Image
The films dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing. — Edward Dmytryk Copy Share Image
A job letter, an interview - even a writing sample - have far less to do with intellect and far more to… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
“When a man, filled with a mixture of reverence and bewilderment, asks, “What on earth does this all mean?”, a child will… — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
I don't think it is even possible to define what a good photograph is, so it is difficult to instruct anybody how… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
“Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
[I'm concerned with] aesthetics and this idea of how the passage between life and death goes. I can visually present that by… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
Every artist, writers included, have an ethics and an aesthetics, whether they can formulate them or not. I happen to think that… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Game mechanics are the core of what a game truly is. They are the interactions and relationships that remain when all of… — Jesse Schell Copy Share Image
Probably the high-watermark of [Bob] Dylan's career came after he plugged in his guitar ("Judas!" one fan shouted during a concert) and… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
What the computer can do in art and design has turned aesthetics on its head... with the computer, things are not so… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
We’re surrounded by anonymous, poorly made objects. It’s tempting to think it’s because the people who use them don’t care-just like the… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“For if indeed God became a man, then Truth condescended to become a truth, from whose historical contingency one cannot simply pass… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
Talk can neither be verified nor falsified in any rigorous sense. This is an open secret which hermeneutics and aesthetics, from Aristotle… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
A lot of my ideas come from McNally Jackson bookstore. One of my favorite things to do is just go there and… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
Aesthetics does not exist for the camera as an isolated entity. Aesthetics, in fact, is inseparable from the purpose of the photographer… — Sid Grossman Copy Share Image
I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“It's all about aesthetics, morality and aesthetics are completely similar.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one. — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
You don't have a choice about fashion or aesthetics - you're in it, whether you like it or not. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game. — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
In terms of aesthetics, I probably look better than I did when I played. — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The better looking you are the harder your life, under one condition: You're of above average intelligence. It's those unintelligent attractive people… — Gregor Collins Copy Share Image
Movies and television show build on top of each other, succeed one another. In a large way, in terms of filmmaking aesthetics,… — Sam Esmail Copy Share Image
The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
“They walked on rather aimlessly. He hoped she wouldn't notice he was touched, because he wouldn't have known how to explain why.… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival. — August Wilson Copy Share Image
![“When a man, filled with a mixture of reverence and bewilderment, asks, “What on earth does this all mean?”, a child will answer him with the fourth movement [of his Fourth Symphony]: “This is the life of the Kingdom of Heaven.” quote by Gustav Mahler](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a8e/gustav-mahler-9935_aesthetics_when-a-man-filled-with-a-mixture-of-reve_997036.jpg)
![“[I'm concerned with] aesthetics and this idea of how the passage between life and death goes. I can visually present that by borrowing this Buddhist statue.” quote by Hiroshi Sugimoto](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b57/hiroshi-sugimoto-14343_aesthetics_i-m-concerned-with-aesthetics-and-this-i_2453902.jpg)
![“Probably the high-watermark of [Bob] Dylan's career came after he plugged in his guitar ("Judas!" one fan shouted during a concert) and exploded American poetry, combining Beat aesthetics, psychedelic imagery, collage techniques.” quote by Jay Michaelson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5f3/jay-michaelson-15590_aesthetics_probably-the-high-watermark-of-bob-dylan_54147.jpg)
![“I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.” quote by August Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b5a/august-wilson-3646_ability_i-think-that-s-the-core-of-black-aesthet_2016951.png)