Schinkel's aesthetic was not a crudely materialistic "truth to material" affair... but rather an attempt to inform iron and other industrial materials… — Karl Friedrich Schinkel Copy Share Image
Were we to aim in every case at the kind of supreme beauty exemplified by Sta Maria della Salute, we should end… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Good design is innovative 2. Good design makes a product useful 3. Good design is aesthetic 4. Good design makes a product… — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The general misunderstanding of a work of art is often due to the fact that the key to its spiritual content and… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
I must pack my short lifer full of interesting events and creative activity. Philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. I intend… — Everett Ruess Copy Share Image
Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
The aesthetic experience has to be given. And beauty is a regular experience of every person - every person who is not… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric… — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
For me, reggae music and its aesthetic are touchstones in both simple and complex ways. Reggae's capacity to be a folk music… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
God's pleasure--the beauty creation possesses in his regard--underlies the distinct being of creation, and so beauty is the first and truest word… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
There is a sinister anachronistic interpretation of the aesthetic state as some kind of totalitarian regime that puts aesthetic over moral standards;… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with… — Richard Morris Copy Share Image
They gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds. Tolkien became...devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity… — Christopher Tolkien Copy Share Image
It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Some of my music requires an obsessive-compulsive approach and a real embodiment of excessiveness. So I really have to live in that… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
The important thing to understand is that the case for pollution control isn't based on some kind of aesthetic distaste for industrial… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
I think that there is an air of experience and aesthetic sophistication that weaves in with the amateur aspects of the film… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The relation of photography and language is a principal site of struggle for value and power in contemporary representations of reality; it… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I feel like I am just an entertainer. It does not matter what form I take to perform and entertain. I think… — BeBe Zahara Benet Copy Share Image
Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad. — Arthur Erickson 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
The goths are beautiful, a vast depth of subcultural, aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that as we did… — Peter Murphy Copy Share Image
