Aesthetic Quotes · Page 12

The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.

— Steven Weinberg

I think I probably have a fairly signature style - I tend to have a certain aesthetic - although I try to…

— Kari Skogland

I can't really change the games I like to make, and I can't change my own particular aesthetic.

— Kim Swift

“Aesthetic sense is the twin of one's instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics.”

— Joseph Brodsky

Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes.

— Willard Van Orman Quine

...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.

— Paul Simon

I would describe my aesthetic as definitely personal and harmonious with an eclectic yet bohemian sensibility.

— Lisa Marie Presley

I didn't want to be a one-hit wonder. I really wanted to make albums that had a different aesthetic every album and…

— Yung Lean

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

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

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

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

What you wear can largely govern your feelings and your emotions, and how you look influences the way people regard you. So…

— Rei Kawakubo

Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I was struggling to figure out how to combine the abstract and the representational. Painting, I suddenly understood how that aesthetic could…

— Margaux Williamson

The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but…

— Donald Knuth

Let us, rather, gather facts, all the facts, regardless of aesthetic appeal or theoretical social worth, and spread those facts before us…

— Tom Robbins

I believe our task is to develop a moral and aesthetic imagination deep enough and wide enough to encompass the contradictions of…

— Richard Tarnas

The internationalization of art becomes a factor contributing to the estrangement of art from the artist. The sum of works of all…

— Harold Rosenberg

Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as…

— Aldo Leopold

Since the Greeks the predominant attitude of thinkers towards intellectual activity was to glorify it insofar as (like aesthetic activity) it finds…

— Julien Benda

Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity…

— Oscar Wilde

Opera contains music that reflects a culture of poetry and aesthetic. Spirituals are no different. What separates a spiritual for me is…

— Measha Brueggergosman

“As an aesthetic phenomenon existence is still bearable for us,57 and art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm intrigued with figuring out the places [where] the horrible and the beautiful meet - that aesthetic fascinates me.

— Neil Gaiman

My ideal is a book that is perfect on every page, that gives you tremendous aesthetic joy on every page. I suppose…

— James Salter

Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy…

— Romola Garai

Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.

— John Szarkowski

I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their…

— Marcel Duchamp

There are the aesthetic pressures for a woman to be pretty and sexy, but not sexual or have desires beyond winning a…

— Maren Morris

Dramas need to have a certain aesthetic that comedy just doesn't really seem to need to have.

— Rob McElhenney

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

Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.

— Evelyn Waugh

Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so…

— Jerry Saltz

The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.

— Edward Dmytryk

I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.

— Alton Tobey

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

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

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

If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche