Just because something causes you to have a feeling of…

Sadness, seriousness are parts of a psychologically sick man - they need causes. So when you are feeling happy, don't start asking, "Why am…

— Anonymous

For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands…

— Richard Morris

You look at women at the Republican convention and women at the Democratic convention. Republicans have a certain aesthetic beauty that involves more makeup,…

— Ron Reagan

“cycling, and from my first days living in Italy I couldn’t help but feel its influence and importance. It played a pivotal part in…

— Charly Wegelius

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

— Helena Christensen

I love going somewhere like Japan where you can't understand a word of the advertising - you just see it for its aesthetic beauty,…

— Stanley Donwood

The taste of the more recent accessions to the leisure class proper and of the middle and lower classes still requires a pecuniary beauty…

— Thorstein Veblen

I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty.

— Marcel Duchamp

“Arguments for preservation based on the beauty of wilderness are sometimes treated as if they were of little weight because they are "merely aesthetic".…

— Peter Singer

“I’ve seen knives pierce the chest, Children dying in the road Crawling things hooked and baited, Rapists bound and then castrated, Villains singed in…

— Roman Payne

“Many real-world Northwestern endonyms have European origins, such as “Portland,” “Victoria,” “Bellingham,” and “Richland.” To address this phenomenon while also contributing a sense of…

— Sylvester Olson

“Even the girl he'd danced with had thought it was some marvelous trick. She had been enveloped in real, bright fire and she had…

— Cassandra Clare

“The depressing majority of comics seem to be about violence of one sort or another, [...] And I just don’t enjoy violence. I can…

— Dave McKean

The general misunderstanding of a work of art is often due to the fact that the key to its spiritual content and technical means…

— Hans Hofmann

Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an…

— Susan Sontag