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 Copy Share Image
I don't think that just because a lot of my music has a quieter aesthetic; [it] excludes me from achieving that in… — J Tillman 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
I think because "Dollhouse" was the first story that I put out. It was the first thing that people were able to… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I… — Max Walker Copy Share Image
Who can forget the music of the French composer Germaine Tailleferre? These are just a few composers whose aesthetic ideals we all… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
In a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, all that is left is to imitate dead styles... Contemporary or… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
What makes a sentence, a phrase, a moment, or a scene delightful? Something about recognizing the truth in it, hearing the music… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style;… — H. L. Mencken 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
“Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in… — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some of my music requires an obsessive-compulsive approach and a real embodiment of excessiveness. So I really have to live in that… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make a primitive painting. I'm trying to summon the archaic. I want to enter into a primitive situation. This… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
My manager got the script for 'Under the Dome,' and I read it and just fell in love with the character. I… — Alexander Koch Copy Share Image
Since my kitchen is the most important part of my home, I want to be creative and innovative, not only in its… — Blake Lively Copy Share Image
The laws against public nudity make no sense. The idea that Jerry Falwell can go topless while Cindy Crawford cannot is an… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
I have tried to draw the human effigy (and all the other subjects dealt with in my paintings) in an immediate and… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who "appreciate" beauty. What is… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
In aesthetic theory it might be extremely difficult, if not quite impracticable, to draw a line between the canon of classicism, or… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Feeling fat is not a feeling. You can feel full or you can feel bloated, or empty, or hungry, but you can't… — Aimee Lou Wood Copy Share Image
My personal aesthetic is to be affected directly by everything about what you're seeing... I don't mind being dashed on the rocks...… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
It's funny, because, yes, there's a Marvel aesthetic, and yet no one ever said to me, 'we have to do a Marvel… — Kari Skogland Copy Share Image
My first girlfriend, when I was about 18, was a fashion designer, and my sister was a fashion designer as well. I've… — Johan Lindeberg Copy Share Image
To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is… — Yves Behar Copy Share Image
The goths are beautiful, a vast depth of subcultural, aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that as we did… — Peter Murphy Copy Share Image
“In the psychology of aesthetics, there is a name for the moment between the anxiety of confronting something new and the satisfying… — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
The extent of my personal BMX adventures were all [on] dirt tracks. But just the aesthetic of it that early-to-mid-'80s BMX is… — Matt Skiba Copy Share Image
I was talking to somebody about the L.A. hardcore scene, and they were saying that it was hard for them to picture… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric… — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
I mean, putting women in the center of a movie and not talking about men, that's already political, right? And you know,… — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in… — Don Cupitt Copy Share Image
I think Jennifer Lopez, Gwen Stefani, and Victoria Beckham all have an aesthetic that I admire, but I also love extreme risk… — Michelle Visage Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to a certain kind of dark aesthetic in cinema and in film, to what's abjected or considered abject.… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
Cinema lends itself to the play between the surreal, the symbolic, the experiential, the nonsensical and the aesthetic. It's on this weird… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
If theory is the role of the architect, then such beautiful proofs are the role of the craftsman. Of course, as with… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
That solo on "Lord, I'm Discouraged" in terms of notes it isn't anything like it, but in terms of aesthetic, it's direct… — Tad Kubler Copy Share Image
The people from where I grew up have no appreciation for Paleolithic rocks or menstrual calendars. I'm a retriever of lost iconographies.… — Carolee Schneemann Copy Share Image