It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
What was needed was a literary theory which, while preserving the formalist bent of New Criticism, its dogged attention to literature as… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I'm definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
I was basically 18 when I got offered to join Mister Valentine band and go on tour and leave high school. I… — Brian Warren Copy Share Image
When does a session of The Theatre of the Oppressed end? Never – since the objective is not to close a cycle,… — Augusto Boal Copy Share Image
The fans, the vampire groupies, love the idea of this androgynous, preternatural figure stalking the night, and craving aesthetic pleasure just as… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it's very important for the spirit and therefore the health. — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. Camp doesn't reverse things. It doesn't argue that the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I'm actually happier with my body now . . . because the body I have now is the body I've worked for.… — Cindy Crawford Copy Share Image
In my teaching, I try to expose my students to the widest range of aesthetic possibilities, so I'll offer them stories from… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Aesthetic culture is not the high-road to all the virtues, and, indeed, certain of the vices have been known to infest it.… — Lewis Foreman Day Copy Share Image
We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Naturally looking at something will become so important in your aesthetic. For that, you have to be disciplined, too, in the way… — Nicolas Ghesquiere Copy Share Image
I have to admit, I am aware of my Latin roots now. In the past, people couldn't place me. They thought that… — Italo Zucchelli Copy Share Image
Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
My visual landscape as a child was the inside of a lot of these old churches. And the Baroque drama of the… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
Kitsch parodies catharsis...It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The information is there, you may not perceive it, but it does affect the lower orders. There are places where it just… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. — Oscar Wilde 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
By nature, an auction is kind of a wholesale beast anyway. You're buying second hand goods, even with the historical, antique or… — Paul Brown Copy Share Image
