Aesthetic Quotes · Page 3

I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.

— Alan Parker

I don't condemn skin show, but it has to be aesthetic.

— Bhumika Chawla

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Any aesthetic quality is usually enhanced by the presence of a counterpoint.”

— Matthew Frederick

All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.

— Walter Benjamin

I am a person who holds the aesthetic high. I have suits made in Savile Row.

— Gary Kemp

I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.

— Andres Serrano

Light has an evident, functional and aesthetic impact on our lives.

— Olafur Eliasson

“Art is, in its purity, an aesthetic means of expression in a time of rising neglect.”

— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive.

— Ira Glass

I think when someone knows who they are and is comfortable and confident with that, I think a lot of the typical,…

— Matt Bomer

I'm not going to say I'll never rock with a band, because I'm too much of a fan of the aesthetic of…

— Dawn Angelique

I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic…

— Ana Castillo

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty. That the reasons flyers fly, whether they know…

— Amelia Earhart

The throat chakra is the center that is aesthetic. It gives an appreciation of beauty.

— Frederick Lenz

I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with…

— Antoni Tapies

For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm taking myself too…

— Giovanni Ribisi

It's not like you're being fake, it's just the way you color it, like a guitar player uses pedals or different effects.…

— Kelly Hogan

Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“The mystery of esthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the god of the creation, remains within or…

— James Joyce

Wine is a chemical symphony. and The Aesthetic differentiation of Chesapeake Bay oysters and Olympia oysters occurs only after we can really…

— Maynard Amerine

Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which…

— Leonard Bernstein

I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of…

— Quentin Crisp

Inaudible prayers, particularly of the Canon, which at first don't seem to have anything to do with music, end up being a…

— Richard Morris

Having Alexei Ratmansky create a new Romeo and Juliet for The National Ballet of Canada to mark our 60th anniversary is a…

— Karen Kain

I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum…

— Dylan McDermott

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

It's [Into the Badlands] something that's very, very different and I think that's why it divided critics initially because they didn't understand…

— Miles Millar

I think that there is a purity aesthetic, like "I just make art because I'm an artist and I can't help it.…

— Mirah

Beauty has never been an important topic in the writings of the major psychologists. In fact, for Jung, aesthetics is a weak,…

— James Hillman

The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

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

We like to juxtapose our music with a more dour aesthetic.

— Matthew Healy

“aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake.”

— Noah Kerner

Fashion right now, people are so...everything is driven by the aesthetic.

— Pusha T

“We all begin to loose once we stop hoping.”

— Laura Chouette

To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.

— Erasmus Darwin

The aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

— Steve Jobs

Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.

— Eva Zeisel

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

— George Edward Woodberry