Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
There are the aesthetic pressures for a woman to be pretty and sexy, but not sexual or have desires beyond winning a… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
Dramas need to have a certain aesthetic that comedy just doesn't really seem to need to have. — Rob McElhenney Copy Share Image
I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their… — Marcel Duchamp 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
Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact. — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The flux of life is pouring its aesthetic aspect into your eyes, your ears - and you ignore it because you are… — Mina Loy Copy Share Image
My joke is a picture of David Bowie on his balcony in the '70s in a suit in Paris, and unless that's… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
There's things that you just couldn't do with an optical printer. Now, with digital compositing, most of the energy that goes into… — John Knoll Copy Share Image
Good design is innovative Gives a product utility Is aesthetic Makes a product easy to understand Is unobtrusive Is honest Is long-lived… — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
We were a small group of weirdos and baby punks and gays and free spirits who had to use our imaginations a… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge… — Kenneth L. Pike Copy Share Image
There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time on farms when I was growing up, and I've been obsessed with the practical logic of… — Jaquelin T. Robertson Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are beginning to view order and chaos as two distinct manifestations of an underlying determinism. And neither state exists in isolation.… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
I really can't claim ever to have had an exceptionally close relationship with a minister. I'm always there. I pay my pledge.… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I believe our task is to develop a moral and aesthetic imagination deep enough and wide enough to encompass the contradictions of… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
The internationalization of art becomes a factor contributing to the estrangement of art from the artist. The sum of works of all… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I am a stronger follower of Veganism by principle, not just because of moral and aesthetic reasons. I truly believe in a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration. — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
The aesthetic dimension of the ideal state comes out in the idea of harmony, which is the classical idea of beauty as… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in finding new aesthetic problems to deal with and challenge myself, even if the aesthetic problem is one of… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing. — Edward Dmytryk Copy Share Image
Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem. — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.' — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
Thankfully, I had my mom, so growing up I'd see her really embody the Y2K aesthetic in its truest form. — Ice Spice Copy Share Image
I always just been a fan of the music... and the aesthetic only in an abstract sense. — Colin Marston Copy Share Image
It's odd that there is a high level of appreciation of nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
I do feel like the blogs that I follow share an aesthetic and draw a lot from '90s influences. — Lauren Jauregui Copy Share Image
Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Our look evolved from the fact that we bought thrift-store clothes. It wasn't like, 'Let adopt a thrift-store aesthetic.' We just didn't… — Fred Schneider Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the icon-stasis on which a desire for aesthetic ecstasy illustrates itself endlessly.” — the mag man Copy Share Image
