The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
I do represent a different aesthetic to drag, I have a different point of view with everything. — BeBe Zahara Benet Copy Share Image
No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Each season I strive to design a forward-thinking and effortless collection with a very clean minimalist aesthetic. — Francisco Costa Copy Share Image
Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
I'm kind of still down with Virg Woolf on this one: "women must kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome. — Ken Baumann Copy Share Image
The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I'm steeped in aesthetic theory, so I tend to bring in my own amateurish way of baring a little bit - when,… — John Maus Copy Share Image
The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge… — Kenneth L. Pike Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time on farms when I was growing up, and I've been obsessed with the practical logic of… — Jaquelin T. Robertson Copy Share Image
There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to… — James Agee Copy Share Image
Two centuries ago Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematicians and a founder of number theory, described his brainchild as "the… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
Good design is innovative 2. Good design makes a product useful 3. Good design is aesthetic 4. Good design makes a product… — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
Scientists don't know what they are talking about when they talk about religion. Religion has nothing to do with belief, and I… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Somaaesthetics can be provisionally defined a the critical meliorative study of one's experience and use of one's body as a locus of… — Richard Shusterman Copy Share Image
My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
What I affirm is the intuition that where God's presence is no longer a tenable supposition and where His absence is no… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
In my teaching, I try to expose my students to the widest range of aesthetic possibilities, so I'll offer them stories from… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or… — Gerhard Richter 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
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
A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success. — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
I don't like a lot of feathers and frills. I like a clean aesthetic, a Calvin Klein aesthetic. — Chad Michaels Copy Share Image
The connection between romantic politics and aesthetics is plain in Schiller's and Novalis's concept of the aesthetic or poetic state. — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to. — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
I make aesthetic movies which are grand and with some of the biggest stars. It's not fair to run them down. I… — Farah Khan Copy Share Image
As artists, we have the luxury of experimenting with extra crazy things, but I feel like my aesthetic is very street-style and… — Justine Skye 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
What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed. — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Mo Ostin was a great money-maker, but he had the aesthetic interest of a fire plug. — Frank Sinatra Jr Copy Share Image
