Craft is important, but cameras for their own sake are not. A sense of aesthetics, a connection with the subject matter, an… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Theater and music are both collaborative media, and I think they're best when they combine different people's visions and aesthetics. — Nick Blaemire Copy Share Image
Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser… — Sloane Crosley 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
I'm not creating art that starts with politics or starts with ethics. I feel I am a conceptual artist because my art… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
“[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,” — Ross Wetzsteon Copy Share Image
I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty. — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good… — Franz Grillparzer 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
“Color directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings.… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
“Aesthetic sense is the twin of one's instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics.” — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of… — Claude Calame Copy Share Image
“I want to say something about bad writing. I'm proud of my bad writing. Everyone is so intelligent lately, and stylish. Fucking… — Ariana Reines 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
Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again. — Ben Shneiderman Copy Share Image
Design is about the betterment of our lives poetically, aesthetically, experientially, sensorially, and emotionally. — Karim Rashid Copy Share Image
“Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
A lot of my ideas come from McNally Jackson bookstore. One of my favorite things to do is just go there and… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
