I'm interested in aesthetics, in the way things look, in finding something in an image that maybe people haven't seen. — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
“Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people. — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Gentrifiers focus on aesthetics, not people. Because people, to them, are aesthetics.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I find beauty in the continual shaping of chaos which clearly embodies the primordial power of nature's performance — Iris van Herpen Copy Share Image
Whenever there's a change with Jazz & its aesthetics, it's almost always reflected with a change in the culture. — Tom Harrell Copy Share Image
The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough.… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health. — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained. — Ferdinand Porsche Copy Share Image
There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then… — Karl Urban Copy Share Image
The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one's sensitivity, one's respect, one's reverence for life. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When I paint I do a different thing than when I design. But both involve aesthetics, both involve thought, both involve planning. — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
“The philosophical study of beauty, art, and the splendor of nature nurtures a person’s fertile mind by exposing a person to the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every… — Jan Koum Copy Share Image
“Cyril: surely you would acknowledge that art expresses the temper of its age, the spirit of its time, the moral and social… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
It was a total and absolute surprise to find out that what was inside the concentration camps was a sea of skeletons.… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
I think I give far more space and play to avant-garde writing than any other contemporary textbook author. I want students to… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
In The Art and Aesthetics of Boxing, David Scott addresses the daunting task of establishing a groundwork for the aesthetics of boxing-and… — Robert Anasi Copy Share Image
“At last everything was satisfactorily arranged, and I could not help admiring the setting: these mingled touches betrayed on a small scale… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“When people dis fantasy—mainstream readers and SF readers alike—they are almost always talking about one sub-genre of fantastic literature. They are talking… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“He looked around and yawned. “I haven’t been sleeping well. It’s nice in here. But after a while the lushes will fill… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“The assignment of meanings [in music] is a shifting, kaleidoscopic play, probably below the threshold of consciousness, certainly outside the pale of… — Susanne K. Langer Copy Share Image
Take Einstein; wasn't he looking for something stable and changeless in this enormous, constantly changing melting pot that is the universe? He… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
“Never worry about the reader, what the reader can understand. When you are writing, glance over your shoulder, and you’ll find there… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
“In the course of aesthetic experience, the perceiver may be overwhelmed by this 'mere object', overcome with emotion, altered to the very… — Wendy Steiner Copy Share Image
“By engaging with film illusions both actively and passively – as I attempt to do in this book – we strengthen the… — John Marmysz Copy Share Image
'Environment' is not an abstract concern, or simply a matter of aesthetics, or of personal taste - although it can and should… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
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