Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic. — Kerry James Marshall 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
The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
The Japanese garden is a very important tool in Japanese architectural design because, not only is a garden traditionally included in any… — E. J. W. Barber Copy Share Image
Although people often equate them, glamour is not the same as beauty, stylishness, luxury, celebrity, or sex appeal. It is not limited… — Virginia Postrel 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
I'm proud of my ability to understand what somebody else is trying to do and help them achieve it, because part of… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Give people pride and they'll live on bread and water, bless their exploiters, and even die for them. Self-surrender is a transaction… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, for people in this position, you just need to make something that feels like you're expressing… — Robin Pecknold 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
Inner experience ... is not easily accessible and, viewed from the outside by intelligence, it would even be necessary to see in… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
When objects are presented within the context of art (and until recently objects always have been used) they are as eligible for… — Joseph Kosuth Copy Share Image
The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
I'm sick of having red hair, but people seem to like that aesthetic. — Rachel Hurd-Wood Copy Share Image
I've always been influenced by the human form. I'm a big fan of that Shakespeare quote. I tend to leave out the… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
For though, in nature, depth and height Are equally held infinite: In poetry, the height we know; 'Tis only infinite below. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity… — Stanley Crouch 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
I am a person who holds the aesthetic high. I have suits made in Savile Row. — Gary Kemp Copy Share Image
Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. — Samuel Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to create an aesthetic that's my own; I'm trying to create a way understanding things through drawing and painting.… — Kysa Johnson Copy Share Image
