Aesthetic Quotes · Page 2

Mars is not an aesthetic God.

— John Brown Gordon

I am a very aesthetic person.

— Alain de Botton

Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms.

— Chaim Potok

All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

— Anthony Burgess

Aesthetic delectation is the danger to be avoided.

— Marcel Duchamp

Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm an aesthetic person who loves beauty.

— Udo Kier

In many contexts, simplicity is not an aesthetic frill.

— Elliott Sober

I don't buy jewelry just for the aesthetic side.

— Julia Restoin Roitfeld

If you don't read poetry how the hell can you solve equations?

— Harvey Jackins

As a sensible actor, I can easily judge which scene looks vulgar and which will look aesthetic.

— Gautam Rode

It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded.

— Lewis Thomas

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

— Octavio Paz

Doing any kind of culture in America in which you are not trying to affirm a European aesthetic is war.

— George C. Wolfe

I feel like a lot of my aesthetic was in response to feeling the awfulness and cheapness of that [ the 70'th].

— Daniel Clowes

“Humans, like flowers and animals, inhabit a form that is both functional and aesthetic.”

— Nancy Etcoff

What other movement determines the S line? Its aesthetic efficacity has long been noted by artists.

— Pablo Picasso

The superhero aesthetic is all about the human form and showing the body, whether they be female or male.

— Oscar Isaac

For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with…

— Richard Morris

We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a…

— David Mamet

The big thing on the horizon for me is video. I feel like it's the closest thing to a perfect mix between…

— Tycho

I write about what I'm thinking about. I write about what is bothering me or what is a political, aesthetic, or ethical…

— Lynne Tillman

Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or…

— Paul Rand

The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than…

— Arthur Erickson

Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of…

— John Naughton

Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It…

— Richard Dawkins

The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly…

— George Steiner

If I was asked to get rid of the Zen aesthetic and just keep one quality necessary to create art, I would…

— John Daido Loori

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

— Ludwig von Mises

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its…

— Richard Courant

There was this interesting quote: try and live your life without fear and desire. It's this concept that's like when you look…

— Zack Snyder

Evidence that [feminine aesthetic preferences and ways of expressing oneself] may be hardwired comes from the fact that they typically appear early…

— Julia Serano

Look, if you have a problem with distilling the Battle of Thermopylae down to freedom versus tyranny, you need to read Herodotus…

— Zack Snyder

It's like, say you're a dancer and you've been studying modern dance your whole life so you're used to a certain aesthetic…

— Jlin

At its heart, music is all higher mathematics.

— Mos Def

There's something about fear and aesthetic that go hand in hand.

— Christopher Bollen

I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.

— Twyla Tharp

I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.

— Yann Martel

“Hera’s form shivered like a candle flame in the breeze”

— Rick Riordan

No one is mediating aesthetic choices on an OPN album other than myself.

— Oneohtrix Point Never