Aesthetic Quotes · Page 10

Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art.

— Fred Ross

Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.

— Roger Scruton

I'm attracted to the rag & bone aesthetic - classic and effortless with an edge.

— Haley Bennett

I think the New Aesthetic is a series of observations. I think most of the trouble people have had with it comes…

— Warren Ellis

I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic.

— Stephen Bayley

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

— Helena Christensen

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic

— Anonymous

Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values.

— Samuel

The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but…

— Donald Knuth

Making strides in areas unencumbered by hard-won expectation feels effervescent. By switching into child-mode, shuffling the cortex, we remember our innocence, when…

— Sara Genn

I was struggling to figure out how to combine the abstract and the representational. Painting, I suddenly understood how that aesthetic could…

— Margaux Williamson

Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What you wear can largely govern your feelings and your emotions, and how you look influences the way people regard you. So…

— Rei Kawakubo

The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that…

— Barry Humphries

We have defined art as the life form and aesthetic art as the life renewal: the stimulating, animating, agitating, inspiring, inspirational, fermenting,…

— Asger Jorn

“I must write down that I am to be an artist. Not in the sense of aesthetic frippery but in the sense…

— Flannery O'Connor

Let us, rather, gather facts, all the facts, regardless of aesthetic appeal or theoretical social worth, and spread those facts before us…

— Tom Robbins

We as the band are passionate and energetic musicians. We have minimised the amount of self-criticism. Fear of death, total impatience and…

— Jussi Lehtisalo

I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point does a healthy…

— Edmund White

The information is there, you may not perceive it, but it does affect the lower orders. There are places where it just…

— Jerry Garcia

Newton, for instance, attempted to comprehend the diversities of the universe with a single system of mathematical laws, the objectivity, sobriety and…

— Stephen Gardiner

Maternity has come a really long way from when my mother or my friends' mothers were shopping, but it's still very limited…

— Lauren Conrad

“Our attraction to that quality which we have come to call 'beauty', and which we associate with the detection of innate unity…

— Charles Babbage

Dreaming is not merely an act of communication (or coded communication, if you like); it is also an aesthetic activity, a game…

— Milan Kundera

Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism.

— Lawrence Weiner

My fascination for studies proved highly beneficial, it assisted the development of my aesthetic understanding of chess, and improved my endgame play.

— Vasily Smyslov

Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it's very important for the spirit and therefore the health.

— Robert Bateman

In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.

— Edward de Bono

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions.…

— Anish Kapoor

The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.

— Steven Weinberg

[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.

— Ai Weiwei

The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites,

— Eli Siegel

I think the things that I enjoy most about directing theater, or works that are really visceral in terms of comedy and…

— Alex Timbers

Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.

— James Russell Lowell

Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.

— Daniel Tammet

Cycling is based so much on form, on aesthetics, on class - the way you carry yourself on the bike, the sort…

— David Millar

“Aesthetic sense is the twin of one's instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics.”

— Joseph Brodsky

I can't really change the games I like to make, and I can't change my own particular aesthetic.

— Kim Swift

I think I probably have a fairly signature style - I tend to have a certain aesthetic - although I try to…

— Kari Skogland

I would describe my aesthetic as definitely personal and harmonious with an eclectic yet bohemian sensibility.

— Lisa Marie Presley