Kitsch may be conveniently defined as a specifically aesthetic form of lying. — Matei Calinescu Copy Share Image
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic. — Beatrice Wood Copy Share Image
“What used to be moral is aesthetic for us. What was social is now individual.” — Fernando Pessoa 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
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
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
A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success. — Cecil Beaton 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
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
With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome. — Ken Baumann 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
[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all; it panders to lower instincts than… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets… — David Milne Copy Share Image
I enjoy a good meal as much as anyone, but I get so confused by nutritional, budgetary, ecological, ethical, aesthetic, and time-management… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
My paintings and sculptures, at first glance, may appear to be purely aesthetic; closer up, they are not. They hold a feeling… — Budd Hopkins Copy Share Image
The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The music that I have always liked has always been more rooted in anger or sadness or alienation or any of those… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
I don't spend time thinking about an aesthetic out of which I create or an ideal toward which my body of work… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and comfort of the sick… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms… — John Zachary Young Copy Share Image
I love jazz. So to me, there are two main types of jazz. There's dancing jazz, and then there's listening jazz. Listening… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Originality is another criterion of aesthetic value. We may formulate an originality principle, according to which highly valuable works of art provide… — James Young Copy Share Image
In the past, people couldn't place me. They thought that I was Danish or English or French. They never got that I… — Italo Zucchelli Copy Share Image
The emotional, physical and aesthetic value of a sound is linked not only to the causal explanation we attribute to it but… — Michel Chion Copy Share Image
Behind the aesthetic form lies the repressed harmony of sensuousness and reason — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Any aesthetic quality is usually enhanced by the presence of a counterpoint.” — Matthew Frederick Copy Share Image
I am a person who holds the aesthetic high. I have suits made in Savile Row. — Gary Kemp Copy Share Image
Light has an evident, functional and aesthetic impact on our lives. — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones. — Andres Serrano Copy Share Image
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