Kitsch may be conveniently defined as a specifically aesthetic form of lying. — Matei Calinescu Copy Share Image
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic. — Beatrice Wood Copy Share Image
Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Behind the aesthetic form lies the repressed harmony of sensuousness and reason — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The collection under my name is an exciting opportunity to really express my own aesthetic and connect with a very different consumer. — Reed Krakoff Copy Share Image
I swear to God, you would think based on my aesthetic and my image and stuff I like to be glammed up.… — Latto Copy Share Image
Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It is an extremely difficult task to make an entertaining movie, which is completely aesthetic and you can watch again and again. — Farah Khan Copy Share Image
I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic. — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I like simple, I like quality, and I like less. Do I like a certain aesthetic? Yeah. — Tomas Maier Copy Share Image
We must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and aesthetic values as… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Contemporary paganism gives me a subjective lens through which the world in which I live can be interpreted on an aesthetic and… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
“It follows, then, that the aesthetic ideal of the categorical agreement with being is a world in which shit is denied and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The secret is to remain true to your aesthetic vision, so that people can see that you really believe passionately in what… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
The business of both parent and teacher is to enable and to help the child to educate himself, to develop his own… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“In the popular imagination hairiness is like furriness, an index of bestiality, and as such an indication of aggressive sexuality. Men cultivate… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To all appearances the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
And, in the future, while the dumb show of bohemianism plays itself out in the cookie cutter shape of the politically correct… — Adam Parfrey Copy Share Image
Does the unmistakeable intent of Versailles to proclaim dominion over nature destroy its aesthetic appeal, as Schopenhauer thought? Does the greenness of… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
I would almost consider myself a canonical child of Generation X... because I think there is an ethic and aesthetic that goes… — Mark Pesce Copy Share Image
A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far… — Russell Page Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
...a major triumph of mathematical imagination: the use of visual imagery to condense a large quantity of information into a single comprehensible… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
“What used to be moral is aesthetic for us. What was social is now individual.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones. — Andres Serrano Copy Share Image
Light has an evident, functional and aesthetic impact on our lives. — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
I am a person who holds the aesthetic high. I have suits made in Savile Row. — Gary Kemp Copy Share Image
All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
