“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
When you make work, the concept is the basis for it; all choices of aesthetics or mediums come later. — Doug Aitken 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
Domination has its own aesthetics, and democratic domination has its democratic aesthetics. — Herbert Marcuse 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
“No man sings as beautifully as when his song is accompanied by a woman’s voice.” — Roman Payne 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
Zen is not morality, it is aesthetics. It does not impose a code of morality. it does not give you any commandments:… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting… — Anonymous 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
If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
I wish I could be a better writer, but writing is so difficult. I get seduced by visual aesthetics. Because I just… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which… — Leonard Bernstein 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
This is not about the aesthetics: there is a rule in a society: "Whoever you deal with, makes you become them", therefore… — Janusz Korwin-Mikke Copy Share Image
I can be critical of Beyoncé and yet also appreciate aspects of her power and representation. I can especially critique the way… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Jay Z in many ways is a rock artist. In the sense that they've used hard rock, punk rock, psychedelic rock aesthetics… — Ian Astbury Copy Share Image
Talk can neither be verified nor falsified in any rigorous sense. This is an open secret which hermeneutics and aesthetics, from Aristotle… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“For if indeed God became a man, then Truth condescended to become a truth, from whose historical contingency one cannot simply pass… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
We’re surrounded by anonymous, poorly made objects. It’s tempting to think it’s because the people who use them don’t care-just like the… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“The novel has accompanied man uninterruptedly and faithfully since the beginning of the Modern Era. It was then that the "passion to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“It is natural to care for those who have cared for us, but at the point a man has been dead a… — Joshua Gibbs Copy Share Image
“they would be astonished to discover the seriously German problem that we are dealing with, a vortex and a turning-point at the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The goal of all principled people is to recognize truth. Simple or complex thoughts and feelings standing alone rarely express any universal… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The very notion that beauty is something we need to be protected from is insulting. [...] When you watch Olympic athletes in… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
“And is not all of life material- based on the material- permeated by the material? Should not one learn, gladly, to utilize… — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
“More than once have I thought, Why does crime, even when as powerful as Cæsar, and assured of being beyond punishment, strive… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
“If I beat my grandmother to death to-morrow in the middle of Battersea Park, you may be perfectly certain that people will… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“A door is not just an entry—it’s the first impression of a space and the statement of your style.” — AspireDoors Copy Share Image
“Introducing the idea of beauty as a salve and of aesthetics making something difficult accessible.” — Henri Cole Copy Share Image
“Appreciate the aesthetic and creativity of the nature and be grateful for being part of it.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Joe Wright is incredible and I'm a huge admirer of his work in general, but specifically his aesthetics and poeticism. — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
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