Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible…

“Art, said Stephen, is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.”

— James Joyce

It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.

— Tacitus

They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the…

— Marsden Hartley

Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !

— Man Ray

Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual writer does.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“The esthetic image in the dramatic form is life purified in and reprojected from the human imagination. The mystery of esthetic, like that of…

— James Joyce

“Goodness is both an ethical and an esthetic standard.”

— Philip Graham Ryken

I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white…

— Walker Evans

The case for democracy is not esthetic.

— George Will

“If you want to be successful in your career, strive to be a well-versed professional with high esthetic standards and a passion for excellence.”

— Germany Kent

I think art is about human existence. Almost by default I'm expressing my experiences as a human.

— Robert Gober

Art arises in those strange complexities of action that are called human beings. It is a kind of human behavior. As such it is…

— Baker Brownell

Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.

— Anonymous

Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he…

— Leo Tolstoy