The fans, the vampire groupies, love the idea of this androgynous, preternatural figure stalking the night, and craving aesthetic pleasure just as… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Surgery is not my job. I have been the first artist to use aesthetic surgery in another context - not to appear… — Orlan Copy Share Image
Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The talent of the people in Brazil was extraordinary. I thought all of the hair and make-up was really fantastic. The aesthetic… — Miranda Otto Copy Share Image
It's more interesting because you get to research the history of the period, and all the different aesthetic elements that make a… — Stanley Tucci Copy Share Image
Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“The goal of all principled people is to recognize truth. Simple or complex thoughts and feelings standing alone rarely express any universal… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
An elegant simplicity is an understated, organic aesthetic that contrasts with the excess of consumerist lifestyles. Drawing from influences ranging from Zen… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
We live in a world full of accidents finally in which on aesthetic principles have a consistency of which we can be… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
People hide behind the word aesthetic. They say, ‘Well, it’s just that designer’s aesthetic.’ But when you see 18 seasons in a… — Joan Smalls Copy Share Image
That's what I like about the idea of the aesthetic experience, the idea of both enjoying looking at works of art and… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I've had many more thousands of books in my possession than my shelves at home would indicate. At one time, I tried… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It's not even clear… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's… — Pierre Soulages Copy Share Image
If you look at all the artists I've ever worked with, I'm still blessed enough to have one of the biggest singles… — Sean Garrett Copy Share Image
An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Cubism is not a manner but an aesthetic, and even a state of mind; it is therefore inevitably connected with every manifestation… — Juan Gris Copy Share Image
“The most lovely moving picture actor, considered in the light of genuine aesthetic values, is no more than a piece of vulgarity;… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I think that there is an air of experience and aesthetic sophistication that weaves in with the amateur aspects of the film… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I've always been a massive Beastie Boys fan, so if you look at their style aesthetic on Check Your Head, that was… — Adam Richman Copy Share Image
Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
I am surprised you shd. say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these wd. be… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
I've always been attracted to the darker things in life. I was never one to go for light, airy stuff, even as… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
I would say that if something has an aesthetic value and it is pleasing to watch or to wear, it may in… — Emilio Pucci Copy Share Image
I guess when I look over my shoulder at other designers, I feel like people are so definitive. It's so clear to… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Like my outfit? I’m going for counterculture. By showing up to a punk rock concert in the least punk-aesthetic outfit possible, I’m… — Alexandra Martin Copy Share Image
I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Whether you're talking about political borders or aesthetic divisions (and clearly, the political ones have much more tragic consequences), it seems like… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
My intention, certainly, is to create something which is aesthetic but many things are implicit in the work that I do. For… — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
If I had had plastic surgery, I would have asked for something better than the face you are seeing! I actually really… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
“What you call looking like an idiot are splashes of mediatic splendor that give shine to your personality and make you more… — Niccolò Ammaniti Copy Share Image
So long as the most vulnerable people in our population are consigned to places that the rest of us will always shun… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
This is why fashion is such a magical part of our lives, for it inspires our decisions without dictating them; it sets… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
How women dressed every single day back in those days is seen as kind of incredible - it must have taken so… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image