“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
“The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.” — Annie Cohen-Solal Copy Share Image
My role is to find strategic insights as to where design can have the most business impact. A designer can bring a… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The answer to these questions is tied to the public's attitude about suicide. For many people, suicide is morally reprehensible. It's against… — John Bateson Copy Share Image
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
About 70% of what I've written about is centered on the clashes and conformities between the emerging life and physical sciences and… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that I'm not highly skilled in any visual art, aesthetics have always played a strong role in my art,… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
“In a Fisherian world, animals are slaves to evolutionary fashion, evolving extravagant and arbitrary displays and tastes that are all "meaningless"; they… — Richard O. Prum Copy Share Image
The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making. — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“In the past an artist produced things that were necessary socially; they were instruments, albeit of a special kind, that helped the… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear. — Jef Raskin Copy Share Image
One could go on for ever as to whether the paint should be thick or thin, whether to paint the woman or… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Now I myself, I cheerfully admit, feel that enormity in Kensington Gardens as something quite natural. I feel it so because I… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
To me there is an intimate relationship between austerity and more lush aesthetics. They're two faces of the same coin. — Sally Potter 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 States has more publishers and a wider range of aesthetics but so much more competition - the amount of writers vying… — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“New clothes left Sylvia reeling with happiness. For Sylvia, a shopping list was a poem. She always shopped alone - it suited… — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
“When a man, filled with a mixture of reverence and bewilderment, asks, “What on earth does this all mean?”, a child will… — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place.… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics… — Henry James Copy Share Image
