It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
I don't believe that to be mainstream you have to be foolish. I don't think you have to be a buffoon to… — Mani Ratnam Copy Share Image
“For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The eighteenth-century view of the garden was that it should lead the observer to the enjoyment of the aesthetic sentiments of regularity… — Penelope Hobhouse Copy Share Image
Mormonism has this great cheesy aesthetic - when you watch their videos, it's almost as if they're about to flash a smile… — Matt Stone Copy Share Image
For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and… — Peter York Copy Share Image
...a major triumph of mathematical imagination: the use of visual imagery to condense a large quantity of information into a single comprehensible… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far… — Russell Page Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I would almost consider myself a canonical child of Generation X... because I think there is an ethic and aesthetic that goes… — Mark Pesce Copy Share Image
The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the… — Verlyn Klinkenborg Copy Share Image
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
When one studies the structure of the universe, it becomes clear that the sciences are as aesthetic as the arts, and the… — Edward J. Fraughton Copy Share Image
And then you start getting into the technical side of it and the aesthetic side and with those areas you can come… — Dennis Muren Copy Share Image
While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I don't get really inspired the way some people do, buzzing with ideas - it feels like hard work to me... but… — Shaun Tan Copy Share Image
To me, art and music inform each other continually, and when I was making more music there was an overall aesthetic that… — Neil Farber Copy Share Image
You look at women at the Republican convention and women at the Democratic convention. Republicans have a certain aesthetic beauty that involves… — Ron Reagan Copy Share Image
In photography we must learn to seek, not the 'picture,' not the aesthetic of tradition, but the ideal instrument of expression, the… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashion's… — Coco Rocha Copy Share Image
Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two-dimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sans-serifs,… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Aesthetic culture is not the high-road to all the virtues, and, indeed, certain of the vices have been known to infest it.… — Lewis Foreman Day Copy Share Image
Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things… — Louis de Bernieres 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
Don't forget that costumes, like dreams, are symbolic communication. Dreams teach us that a language for everything exists - for every object,… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
“Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen;… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with universal therefore… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
The temptation to believe that the Universe is the product of some sort of design, a manifestation of subtle aesthetic and mathematical… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
I try to get the hip-hop aesthetic, most times without an MC. I don't use a rapper or a DJ to give… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
