Aesthetic Quotes · Page 9

I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic…

— Ana Castillo

It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded.

— Lewis Thomas

I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a…

— Emile Hirsch

As a sensible actor, I can easily judge which scene looks vulgar and which will look aesthetic.

— Gautam Rode

Murakami's ability to deconstruct and his aesthetic and conceptual freedom have been totally inspiring for me.

— Virgil Abloh

I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.

— Josef Albers

I adore creating a wonderful environment for people who have an aesthetic sense along with wholesome family values.

— Sonja Morgan

Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.

— John Dewey

If you ever saw All That Jazz [1979], Bob Fosse was kind of raised dancing in strip joints and the whole era…

— David Copperfield

Satre found atheism 'cruel', Camus 'dreadful', and Nietzsche 'maddening'. Atheists who consistently try to live without God tend to commit suicide or…

— Norman Geisler

I was a bit shut down by a lot of the snarkiness and biliousness in some of the poetry blogs. I was…

— Simone Muench

If I could be said to have any kind of aesthetic, it’s sort of a magpie aesthetic—I just go and pick up…

— Sally Mann

Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles…

— Calvin Seerveld

When I wasn't as attractive as I am now, I suffered at the hands of cruel children and their taunts until I…

— Johnny Vegas

Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity…

— Stanley Crouch

From the viewpoint of analytic psychology, the theatre, aside from any aesthetic value, may be considered as an institution for the treatment…

— Carl Jung

“His room was a sickly dual-tone of crimson and charcoal, like an Untitled Rothko, the colours bleeding into each other horribly and…

— Moonshine Noire

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

— Jen Wang

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

— Andy Summers

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

— Beaumont Newhall

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

— George Orwell

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

Just women who are really eclectic, so every woman from Gwyneth Paltrow to Peggy Nolan, who has half a shaved head and…

— Sophia Amoruso

Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or…

— Gerhard Richter

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

— Alfred North Whitehead

I was also always interested in the aesthetic realm - architecture and that kind of stuff - but music was my first…

— St. Lucia

Mankind's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.

— Jerry Mander

Okay, a truly great song is a song that makes its own aesthetic intentions clear and then lives up to them and…

— Stephin Merritt

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

— Steve Jobs

The aesthetic experience has to be given. And beauty is a regular experience of every person - every person who is not…

— Peter Schjeldahl

There is an aesthetic excitement about painting which is one of the most beautiful experiences that can be. Put things down while…

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

The superhero aesthetic is all about the human form and showing the body, whether they be female or male.

— Oscar Isaac

Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.

— Albert Einstein

What other movement determines the S line? Its aesthetic efficacity has long been noted by artists.

— Pablo Picasso

“Humans, like flowers and animals, inhabit a form that is both functional and aesthetic.”

— Nancy Etcoff

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

— Octavio Paz

I feel like a lot of my aesthetic was in response to feeling the awfulness and cheapness of that [ the 70'th].

— Daniel Clowes

Doing any kind of culture in America in which you are not trying to affirm a European aesthetic is war.

— George C. Wolfe

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

— J. G. Ballard

Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like.

— St. Vincent