Okay, a truly great song is a song that makes its own aesthetic intentions clear and then lives up to them and… — Stephin Merritt Copy Share Image
Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The superhero aesthetic is all about the human form and showing the body, whether they be female or male. — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
“Humans, like flowers and animals, inhabit a form that is both functional and aesthetic.” — Nancy Etcoff Copy Share Image
What other movement determines the S line? Its aesthetic efficacity has long been noted by artists. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Doing any kind of culture in America in which you are not trying to affirm a European aesthetic is war. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I feel like a lot of my aesthetic was in response to feeling the awfulness and cheapness of that [ the 70'th]. — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game. — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
I think that most successful artists - not always, but a lot of them, in any field - have business savvy as… — Teddy Wayne Copy Share Image
Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
All movements begin and end, and all have been inspired by others that have come before them. They evolve and then deconstruct… — Marc Forster Copy Share Image
There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then… — Karl Urban Copy Share Image
That said, we don't approach these improvements as only a surface aesthetic. The producers and we think that these men are helped… — Kyan Douglas Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
“With time, the racism spread to more and more cultural arenas. American aesthetic culture was built around white standards of beauty. The… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I've always identified people's taste in music as being kind of hetero and/or homo - there's music people like because they feel… — Owen Pallett Copy Share Image
Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Eisner mentioned he was uncomfortable calling Kirby someone with heavy artistic intent. I paraphrase, but Eisner felt Jack was mostly concerned with… — Glen David Gold Copy Share Image
It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal…… Great art remains stable and unobscure because the… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world, to state in aesthetic creation the deepest psychic and… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
My aesthetic is derived from my point of view which is one of optimism and hope. The camera became a conduit for… — Mike Ruiz Copy Share Image
The taste of the more recent accessions to the leisure class proper and of the middle and lower classes still requires a… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
On some kind of unspoken, deep, deep level, I think we [with Ryan Murphy] have an aesthetic that we both understand or… — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image
The analogies between science and art are very good as long as you are talking about the creation and the performance. The… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often… — Yves Behar Copy Share Image
He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on… — Henry James Copy Share Image
There is a “yoga body” aesthetic, which is long and sinewy. I am curvy. I get praised on a regular basis, with… — Kathryn Budig Copy Share Image
Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I think that musicians should never forget about the intimacy of bringing two people together, and the aesthetic transference where you're almost… — Joe Williams Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea of a singer-songwriter record. I don't picture myself that way, and it's not my favorite sort of… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
...the feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling,… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“Art is a true aesthetic synthesis , "a priori" of feeling and image in the intuition, as to which it may be… — Benedetto Croce Copy Share Image