So begins a question which has of late become more and…

“The very notion that beauty is something we need to be protected from is insulting. [...] When you watch Olympic athletes in competition, does…

— Ted Chiang

Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

— Jimenez Lai

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists…

— Albert Einstein

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 people who…

— Jonathan Ive

For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin,…

— Ray Bradbury

I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.

— Twyla Tharp

The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough. Banality here…

— Asger Jorn

[Alexei Nemov] has the best feel for the aesthetics of the sport. He doesn't just do a skill; he makes it look gorgeous. Some…

— Peter Vidmar

“No man sings as beautifully as when his song is accompanied by a woman’s voice.”

— Roman Payne

Road cycling, especially up mountains. It's the heady mixture of endorphins and aesthetics that I love. My wife does it too, and being with…

— Gary Kemp

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…

— Jay Michaelson

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

— W. H. Auden

As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,…

— Ray Bradbury

The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and…

— Colin Marston

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe