The connection between romantic politics and aesthetics is plain in Schiller's and Novalis's concept of the aesthetic or poetic state. — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
If you come at movies with your own sense of morality and not your own sense of aesthetics, I think you're screwed.… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I'm a passionate believer in the inherent creativity possessed by all people and our inherent ability--if it's not clouded by convention--to appreciate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that I'm not highly skilled in any visual art, aesthetics have always played a strong role in my art,… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to do a Western. And trying to think of what that would be, I always figured that… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I describe it ( the new aesthetics) 'radically': I say aesthetics = human being. That is a radical formula. I set the… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
Style is, above all, a system of forms with a quality and a meaningful expression through which the personality of the artist… — Meyer Schapiro Copy Share Image
I consider morals and aesthetics one and the same, for they cover only one impulse, one drive inherent in our consciousness -… — Naum Gabo Copy Share Image
“Art becomes so specialized as to be comprehensible only to artists, and they complain bitterly of public indifference to their work. Competition… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
“Let a thing be but a sort of punctual surprise, like the first cache of violets in March, let it be delicate,… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
The (U.K.) government's thesis that the countryside of upland and coastal Britain is 'worth sacrificing to save the planet' is an insult… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
“The answer to these questions is tied to the public's attitude about suicide. For many people, suicide is morally reprehensible. It's against… — John Bateson Copy Share Image
“It may be that mathematics is not generally recognized as one of the arts precisely because so much pyramidal training and practice… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
My favorite form is the short story. From an aesthetics stand point you really have to pare down to the bone. You… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,” — Ross Wetzsteon Copy Share Image
I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Road cycling, especially up mountains. It's the heady mixture of endorphins and aesthetics that I love. My wife does it too, and… — Gary Kemp Copy Share Image
People often say that aesthetics is a branch of psychology. The idea is that once we are more advanced-all the mysteries of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong… — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
Theater and music are both collaborative media, and I think they're best when they combine different people's visions and aesthetics. — Nick Blaemire Copy Share Image
Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
While the aesthetics of consumption (photographic or otherwise) requires a heroicized myth of the artist, the exemplary practice of the player-off codes… — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
“In my box of sound bites there are no jackhammers, no snowmobiles, no Jet Skis, no children wailing. Music but no Muzak.… — Joan Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“...the line of beauty is the line of beauty. It doesn't matter if it's been through the Xerox machine a hundred times.” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Aesthetics involves human emotion—and we’ve discovered that when emotions are involved, design thinking has proved to be the best problem-solving tool.” — Bill Burnett Copy Share Image
I love cinema. I think the risk of the aesthetics being fixed is compensated by other advantages. Cinema is visually powerful, it… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
“In here, Phryne, is the nursery. Do you like babies? Phryne laughed. No, not at all. they are not aesthetic like a… — Kerry Greenwood Copy Share Image
“What is good is also divine. Queer as it sounds, that sums up my ethics. Only something supernatural can express the Supernatural.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Craft is important, but cameras for their own sake are not. A sense of aesthetics, a connection with the subject matter, an… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Cycling is based so much on form, on aesthetics, on class - the way you carry yourself on the bike, the sort… — David Millar Copy Share Image