The taste of the more recent accessions to the leisure class proper and of the middle and lower classes still requires a… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
I think that marriage vows should include an escape clause that says the contract is broken if one party ups and makes… — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
I want big ideas to have aesthetic relevance. I want to tickle people's intellectual sensibilities and instill a sense of wonder. — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one. — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
What quality is shared by all objects that provoke our aesthetic emotions? Only one answer seems possible— significant form. In each, lines… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
Design doesn't have to be daunting. Some people really find it challenging to take on their entire home, because they don't know… — Bobby Berk 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
My paintings and sculptures, at first glance, may appear to be purely aesthetic; closer up, they are not. They hold a feeling… — Budd Hopkins Copy Share Image
Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. On… — Samuel Mockbee Copy Share Image
I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum… — Dylan McDermott Copy Share Image
On some kind of unspoken, deep, deep level, I think we [with Ryan Murphy] have an aesthetic that we both understand or… — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image
It's just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style. — Yigal Azrouel Copy Share Image
Too much of what passes for design now is theater. It's one thing to be eccentric- and by the way, most eccentrics… — Albert Hadley Copy Share Image
An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of… — Amedeo Modigliani Copy Share Image
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I do feel like the blogs that I follow share an aesthetic and draw a lot from '90s influences. — Lauren Jauregui Copy Share Image
In these times aesthetic taste is dismissed as irrelevant. Well, I am perverse, for that reason I am more drawn to it… — Deborah Turbeville Copy Share Image
I maintain that the expression of junk and objects has an intrinsic value, and I see no need to look for aesthetic… — Arman Copy Share Image
In fact, the influence of Schoenberg may be overwhelming on his followers, but the significance of his art is to be identified… — Maurice Ravel Copy Share Image
