I like anything with my face on it, just from an aesthetic…

You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk…

— Ray Bradbury

“Beauty in the European sense has always had a premeditated quality to it. We've always had an aesthetic intention and a long-range plan. That's…

— Milan Kundera

All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.

— Walter Benjamin

Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If…

— Yves Behar

I don't think I was ever thinking critically about my aesthetic, I think it's enough when you're little just to understand that you can…

— Tavi Gevinson

I'm kind of still down with Virg Woolf on this one: "women must kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have been 'killed'…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

— A. S. Byatt

I try to get the hip-hop aesthetic, most times without an MC. I don't use a rapper or a DJ to give it the…

— Robert Glasper

It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account.

— John Maus

It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is not necessary…

— Edith Schaeffer

In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold…

— Ludwig von Mises

Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

I had always wanted to expand to beauty, but I knew I wanted to be able to translate my design aesthetic in an authentic…

— Charlotte Ronson

I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular 'ism', but a gathering together of writers…

— John Metcalf