My intention, certainly, is to create something which is…

My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.

— Mike White

Somebody once said to me that photography and writing don't get respect because people think that they can do it, too.

— Danielle Steel

I'm not trying to create an aesthetic that's my own; I'm trying to create a way understanding things through drawing and painting. That's the…

— Kysa Johnson

When you look at history, every major movement, the first thing they do is create an aesthetic. Think about the Nazis. Or the Maoists…

— Christopher Wylie

Photography and writing are marvelous distractions from painting. I might even have found movies more interesting than photography. I tried it a bit, but…

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Most photographers go and photograph something that they see, that exists, and that somebody else has created - they document it. But fashion photographers…

— Mario Testino

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare,…

— Roberto Burle Marx

But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what…

— Talcott Parsons

Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral…

— Anonymous

The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual, rights which…

— Ronald Reagan

You happily give Facebook terabytes of structured data about yourself, content with the implicit tradeoff that Facebook is going to give you a social…

— John Battelle

Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and…

— Thomas Sowell

Which are the people who have influenced us most? Not the ones who thought they did, but those who had not the remotest notion…

— Oswald Chambers

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless…

— Susan Griffin

“One way or another, we spend our whole lives being conditioned into accepting some line or order, some position of domination or subjection. It’s…

— Cliff James