Aesthetic Quotes · Page 7

What cinema can do is the reordering of this reality from a certain chaos or from a certain order into an aesthetic…

— Elia Suleiman

It's really been important for me for all these years to stay with my aesthetic - the everyday classic piece that you're…

— Jennifer Meyer

I like the 50s, party-movie aesthetic of the beach. I'm not really into modern-day beach.

— Bethany Cosentino

Design is a matter of balancing different needs and outlooks-practical and aesthetic, masculine and feminine, designer and client, dream and reality.

— Alexa Hampton

In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.

— Clarice Lispector

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.

— Arthur Erickson

I love to read theories without ever using them when working... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also…

— Ernst Haas

Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that…

— Milan Kundera

Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really…

— Francis Bacon

The Art Deco movement, architecture from that period and sort of the industrial aesthetic from that period. Art Deco meets tribal kind…

— Pamela Love

The great problem was the selection of the readymade. I needed to choose an object without it impressing me: that is to…

— Marcel Duchamp

The aesthetic value of creation cannot be overlooked. Our very contact with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence…

— Pope John Paul II

If sorrow and beauty are all tied up together, then perhaps maturity brings with it not what Nabhan calls abstraction, but an…

— Rebecca Solnit

I’m interested in things which suggest the world rather than express the personality... The most conventional thing, the most ordinary - it…

— Jasper Johns

I'm not about either entertaining or instructing. The entertaining and instructing are secondary fallout from the fundamental thing, which is basically to…

— Samuel R. Delany

We all have Tumblr, and we all have Instagram and everything. People care so much about it because, now, any random can…

— Lorde

I really liked the design aesthetic of the mid-century modern for furniture and the early '60s stuff for the clothes. But then,…

— Adam Reed

“Aesthetic enthusiasm. Perception of beauty in the external world, or, on the other hand, in words and their right arrangement. Pleasure in…

— George Orwell

More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues.…

— Beaumont Newhall

There is always the working out of things, and you have to have sort of a gut response to it. And an…

— Andy Summers

“Beauty could be defined simply as 'that which pleases.' But there is another aspect to art, and that... is the sublime. Like…

— Jen Wang

For me, reggae music and its aesthetic are touchstones in both simple and complex ways. Reggae's capacity to be a folk music…

— Kwame Dawes

Aesthetic racism is almost always a sign of inexperience. Those who have not made their way far enough into the world of…

— Milan Kundera

The concept of the public welfare is broad and inclusive ... the values it represents are spiritual as well as physical, aesthetic…

— William O. Douglas

I think objectifying women is not wrong if only her beauty is captured in an aesthetic manner.

— Kriti Kharbanda

My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all…

— Mike White

In the end, I believe that the most important influence on my aesthetic has been the photographs I have taken.

— Roger Ballen

I try to bring as much taste, smartness, quality, functionality, and aesthetic qualities to everyday clothes.

— Christophe Lemaire

For though, in nature, depth and height Are equally held infinite: In poetry, the height we know; 'Tis only infinite below.

— Jonathan Swift

I stick with a '60s vintage aesthetic of letterman's jackets, plain T-shirts, and good jeans.

— G-Eazy

Usually, working out is about aesthetics - six-pack abs and biceps and pecs - instead of true functionality. True function has a…

— Laird Hamilton

If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.

— Asger Jorn

The blue-collar culture, it's not really a buttoned-up aesthetic. It's a heavy-labor thing because you're, like, sweating.

— Virgil Abloh

It's just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style.

— Yigal Azrouel

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

— Manuel Puig

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

— Seamus Heaney

My well-known aesthetic sense, which is so obvious and personal, spontaneously spurs me to challenge myself with different disciplines.

— Giorgio Armani

“Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor.”

— Christopher Caudwell

I'm not a huge fan of Bruce Springsteen, and it's certainly not because of his politics. I just don't like the aesthetic.

— Andrew Breitbart