I think that there is a middle-class desire, and maybe an almost universal desire, among many human beings to live in clean… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
Those who dislike fantasy are very often equally bored or repelled by science. They don't like either hobbits, or quasars; they don't… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The analogies between science and art are very good as long as you are talking about the creation and the performance. The… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Yes, but more than being a designer, I'm more of a stylist, because I don't sew and I don't sketch, but I'm… — Dita Von Teese Copy Share Image
I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I find that deadlines form part of the aesthetic. I don't have that "It could only have been this way" kind of… — Tom Burr Copy Share Image
When I go on a nostalgia trip it's not aesthetic. For me it's about trying to recapture the smell or the feeling… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I like anything with my face on it, just from an aesthetic point of view. — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
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 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
The eighteenth-century view of the garden was that it should lead the observer to the enjoyment of the aesthetic sentiments of regularity… — Penelope Hobhouse 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
Mankind's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order. — Jerry Mander Copy Share Image
IN PERSIA I SAW that poetry is meant to be set to music & chanted or sung--for one reason alone--because it works.A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Physical separateness can never be overcome by electronics, but only by 'conviviality,' by 'living together' in the most literal physical sense. The… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with universal therefore… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Artaud sought to remove aesthetic distance, bringing the audience into direct contact with the dangers of life. By turning theatre into a… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
[Harriet Tubman] spoke passionately about her parents, her friends, shared stories about her childhood - learning about all these elements and aspects… — Aisha Hinds Copy Share Image
The beautiful is and remains beautiful though it arouse no emotion whatever, and though there be no one to look at it.… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
Dreaming is not merely an act of communication (or coded communication, if you like); it is also an aesthetic activity, a game… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Even as a child I was fascinated by death, not in a spiritual sense, but in an aesthetic one. A hamster or… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image