As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
My well-known aesthetic sense, which is so obvious and personal, spontaneously spurs me to challenge myself with different disciplines. — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
“Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor.” — Christopher Caudwell Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge fan of Bruce Springsteen, and it's certainly not because of his politics. I just don't like the aesthetic. — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
I do represent a different aesthetic to drag, I have a different point of view with everything. — BeBe Zahara Benet Copy Share Image
No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success. — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
When I say Afro-American aesthetic, I'm not just talking about the United States, I'm talking about the Americas. People in the Latin… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Men=earthbound creatures, living in communities, endowed with common sense, sensus communis, a community sense; not autonomous, needing each other’s company even for… — Hannah Copy Share Image
Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way,… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
In particular I want to talk about natural black hair, and how it's not just hair. I mean, I'm interested in hair… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Two centuries ago Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematicians and a founder of number theory, described his brainchild as "the… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to… — James Agee Copy Share Image
It would be great to do another television show that was a multi-camera because the hours are so wonderful and you can… — Kaitlin Olson Copy Share Image
What I affirm is the intuition that where God's presence is no longer a tenable supposition and where His absence is no… — George Steiner 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
Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or… — Gerhard Richter 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
Aesthetic racism is almost always a sign of inexperience. Those who have not made their way far enough into the world of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The concept of the public welfare is broad and inclusive ... the values it represents are spiritual as well as physical, aesthetic… — William O. Douglas 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
Scientists don't know what they are talking about when they talk about religion. Religion has nothing to do with belief, and I… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome. — Ken Baumann Copy Share Image
It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to. — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
I make aesthetic movies which are grand and with some of the biggest stars. It's not fair to run them down. I… — Farah Khan Copy Share Image
As artists, we have the luxury of experimenting with extra crazy things, but I feel like my aesthetic is very street-style and… — Justine Skye Copy Share Image
The best and most innovative products don't always win...(it's an) aesthetic flaw in how the universe worked — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I don't like a lot of feathers and frills. I like a clean aesthetic, a Calvin Klein aesthetic. — Chad Michaels Copy Share Image
The connection between romantic politics and aesthetics is plain in Schiller's and Novalis's concept of the aesthetic or poetic state. — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Mo Ostin was a great money-maker, but he had the aesthetic interest of a fire plug. — Frank Sinatra Jr Copy Share Image
Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal. — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed. — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
