As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was struggling to figure out how to combine the abstract and the representational. Painting, I suddenly understood how that aesthetic could… — Margaux Williamson Copy Share Image
In prose fiction the freedom to work honestly exists, although you may have to fight for it. In those other areas of… — James Kelman Copy Share Image
It is an extremely difficult task to make an entertaining movie, which is completely aesthetic and you can watch again and again. — Farah Khan Copy Share Image
I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones. — Andres Serrano Copy Share Image
Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic. — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
In architecture, to do anything beyond object form is often treated as something extra-disciplinary - something outside the discipline that has nothing… — Keller Easterling Copy Share Image
Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I don't like comparisons with football. Baseball is an entirely different game. You can watch a tight, well-played football game,but it isn't… — Bowie Kuhn Copy Share Image
I try to bring as much taste, smartness, quality, functionality, and aesthetic qualities to everyday clothes. — Christophe Lemaire Copy Share Image
"Girly" can be limiting if you're told it's the only option. I don't think the solution is to get rid of the… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
That authentic experience that happens both in the artist and in the audience you can classify as a mystical experience. You can… — Janaka Stucky Copy Share Image
The temptation to believe that the Universe is the product of some sort of design, a manifestation of subtle aesthetic and mathematical… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The filmmakers I really love are the ones that let me look through their eyes for a while. They have an aesthetic… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
The best engineer a few decades ago was someone who could create the most beautiful beam or structure; today it's to do… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
Thankfully, I had my mom, so growing up I'd see her really embody the Y2K aesthetic in its truest form. — Ice Spice Copy Share Image
Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
Does the unmistakeable intent of Versailles to proclaim dominion over nature destroy its aesthetic appeal, as Schopenhauer thought? Does the greenness of… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
I really love animation as a storytelling medium, whether it's traditional, cel animation, or CG, or stop motion, which is more our… — Seth Green Copy Share Image
If sorrow and beauty are all tied up together, then perhaps maturity brings with it not what Nabhan calls abstraction, but an… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Learning that aesthetic as a kid - seeing those photos - made me think that that's what photos are supposed to look… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way,… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
I don't think that a white woman is in denial when she dyes her hair blonde. And I actually think we are… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
