Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
I cannot think that a player genuinely loving the game can get pleasure just from the number of points scored no matter… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
When nature suffers because it is destroyed by human activities, the notion of beauty is really losing its meaning, because nothing is… — Marieta Maglas Copy Share Image
Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with… — Richard Morris Copy Share Image
We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The big thing on the horizon for me is video. I feel like it's the closest thing to a perfect mix between… — Tycho Copy Share Image
What makes a sentence, a phrase, a moment, or a scene delightful? Something about recognizing the truth in it, hearing the music… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
Of one thing we can be sure: our own future is inseparable from the larger community that brought us into being and… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
There can be no reasonable right to live on sidewalks. Society needs order, and hence has a right to a minimally civilized… — George Will Copy Share Image
Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Once one has realized, following the great English literary visionaries William Shakespeare and Thomas Nashe, that sexual puritanism, political disciplinarianism, and abuse… — John Milbank Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be criticized for taking low-quality photographs, so I tried to reach the best, highest quality of photography and… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some of my music requires an obsessive-compulsive approach and a real embodiment of excessiveness. So I really have to live in that… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
I write about what I'm thinking about. I write about what is bothering me or what is a political, aesthetic, or ethical… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
In aesthetic theory it might be extremely difficult, if not quite impracticable, to draw a line between the canon of classicism, or… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Feeling fat is not a feeling. You can feel full or you can feel bloated, or empty, or hungry, but you can't… — Aimee Lou Wood Copy Share Image
My personal aesthetic is to be affected directly by everything about what you're seeing... I don't mind being dashed on the rocks...… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
My first girlfriend, when I was about 18, was a fashion designer, and my sister was a fashion designer as well. I've… — Johan Lindeberg Copy Share Image
It's funny, because, yes, there's a Marvel aesthetic, and yet no one ever said to me, 'we have to do a Marvel… — Kari Skogland Copy Share Image
To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is… — Yves Behar Copy Share Image
The goths are beautiful, a vast depth of subcultural, aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that as we did… — Peter Murphy Copy Share Image
“In the psychology of aesthetics, there is a name for the moment between the anxiety of confronting something new and the satisfying… — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
Since my kitchen is the most important part of my home, I want to be creative and innovative, not only in its… — Blake Lively Copy Share Image
The laws against public nudity make no sense. The idea that Jerry Falwell can go topless while Cindy Crawford cannot is an… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who "appreciate" beauty. What is… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I have tried to draw the human effigy (and all the other subjects dealt with in my paintings) in an immediate and… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric… — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
I mean, putting women in the center of a movie and not talking about men, that's already political, right? And you know,… — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in… — Don Cupitt Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to a certain kind of dark aesthetic in cinema and in film, to what's abjected or considered abject.… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
I think Jennifer Lopez, Gwen Stefani, and Victoria Beckham all have an aesthetic that I admire, but I also love extreme risk… — Michelle Visage Copy Share Image
Cinema lends itself to the play between the surreal, the symbolic, the experiential, the nonsensical and the aesthetic. It's on this weird… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
The extent of my personal BMX adventures were all [on] dirt tracks. But just the aesthetic of it that early-to-mid-'80s BMX is… — Matt Skiba Copy Share Image
I was talking to somebody about the L.A. hardcore scene, and they were saying that it was hard for them to picture… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make a primitive painting. I'm trying to summon the archaic. I want to enter into a primitive situation. This… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
If theory is the role of the architect, then such beautiful proofs are the role of the craftsman. Of course, as with… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
The people from where I grew up have no appreciation for Paleolithic rocks or menstrual calendars. I'm a retriever of lost iconographies.… — Carolee Schneemann Copy Share Image
![“I didn't want to be criticized for taking low-quality photographs, so I tried to reach the best, highest quality of photography and then to combine this with a conceptual art practice. But thinking back, that was the wrong decision [laughs]. Developing a low-quality aesthetic is a sign of serious…” quote by Hiroshi Sugimoto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/569/hiroshi-sugimoto-14343_aesthetic_i-didn-t-want-to-be-criticized-for-takin_1474127.jpg)
![“The extent of my personal BMX adventures were all [on] dirt tracks. But just the aesthetic of it that early-to-mid-'80s BMX is something that's just part of me.” quote by Matt Skiba](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/651/matt-skiba-4325_80s_the-extent-of-my-personal-bmx-adventures_2745887.jpg)
