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
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I was also always interested in the aesthetic realm - architecture and that kind of stuff - but music was my first… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
Mankind's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order. — Jerry Mander 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
Physicists use 'God' as a metaphor more often than other scientists-- especially in popular writing, but in the technical literature as well.… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
"Based on a true story" is a come-on, the aesthetic equivalent of "no loan request refused." For, at best, the creator has… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Some people', Miss R. said,'run to conceits or wisdom but I hold to the hard, brown, nutlike word. I might point out… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation,… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Every movie that I'm in is very different in terms of aesthetic and costume. I mean, from 'Mirror, Mirror' to 'Mortal Instruments,'… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
“The mind provides a person with the mental fortitude to survive any physical or spiritual crisis. For the present time, I am… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause “the West… — Christopher McCandless Copy Share Image
When objects are presented within the context of art (and until recently objects always have been used) they are as eligible for… — Joseph Kosuth Copy Share Image
A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We exist because of suburbia. Suburbia is a freak’s dreamworld, a world of extra rooms upstairs and long, lazy afternoons with no… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear,… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
It is an assumption that there is always one single dimension for assessing persons and their actions that has canonical priority. This… — Raymond Geuss 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else. — Evelyn Waugh 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 live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration. — Alton Tobey 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
