...The men eyed her with the automatic mix of curiosity, lust, and aesthetic judgment they always gave young women, subject to object,… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Maybe it's because of my chaotic lifestyle, but I find myself really drawn to a more minimalist, neutral aesthetic. Oftentimes, I'm away… — Jenna Ortega Copy Share Image
I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
The Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and aesthetic, both insolent and polite, rigid and adaptable,… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
In these times aesthetic taste is dismissed as irrelevant. Well, I am perverse, for that reason I am more drawn to it… — Deborah Turbeville Copy Share Image
It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is… — Robert L. Devaney Copy Share Image
There's an aesthetic theme, which is cities at two o'clock in the morning. Not cities packed with people going out to clubs… — Moby Copy Share Image
Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The good designer aims at a perfect fusion of the various considerations which enter into his design. He aims at an untortured… — Leo Lionni Copy Share Image
The main reason I decided to study Latin American literature was because I'd gotten somewhat bored by the American fiction I was… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
I was listening to a lot of really early house music tracks. Like Chicago house and Detroit. And Marshall Jefferson has a… — Katie Stelmanis Copy Share Image
We struggle against easel painting not because it is an aesthetic form of painting, but because it is not modern, for it… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Beauty in the European sense has always had a premeditated quality to it. We've always had an aesthetic intention and a long-range… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll… — Victoria Legrand Copy Share Image
The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades -… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
God's pleasure--the beauty creation possesses in his regard--underlies the distinct being of creation, and so beauty is the first and truest word… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced… — Christopher Tolkien Copy Share Image
“The right brain is better than the left in perceiving space and making judgments as to balance, harmony, and the composition of… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are… — Victor Pinchuk Copy Share Image
The people who work in the fashion industry and the people who work in the film industry have a lot in common.… — Gal Gadot Copy Share Image
Christianity has from its beginning portrayed itself as a gospel of peace, a way of reconciliation (with God, with other creatures), and… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
They who seek religion for culture's sake are aesthetic, not religious, and will never gain that grace which religion adds to culture,… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
When I go on a nostalgia trip it's not aesthetic. For me it's about trying to recapture the smell or the feeling… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
Too much of what passes for design now is theater. It's one thing to be eccentric- and by the way, most eccentrics… — Albert Hadley Copy Share Image
I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process… — Raymond Loewy Copy Share Image
I think that marriage vows should include an escape clause that says the contract is broken if one party ups and makes… — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular 'ism', but a gathering together… — John Metcalf Copy Share Image
A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational and economic legacies - all… — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
“As the sun dipped beneath the horizon, the clouds overhead blushed cotton-candy pink. Their reflections gleamed on the crystalline waters of Lake… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, for people in this position, you just need to make something that feels like you're expressing… — Robin Pecknold Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to create an aesthetic that's my own; I'm trying to create a way understanding things through drawing and painting.… — Kysa Johnson Copy Share Image
“To speak of sparing anything because it is beautiful is to waste one’s breath and incur ridicule in the bargain. The aesthetic… — John Van Dyke Copy Share Image
What quality is shared by all objects that provoke our aesthetic emotions? Only one answer seems possible— significant form. In each, lines… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image