Aesthetics Quotes · Page 5

Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You don't have a choice about fashion or aesthetics - you're in it, whether you like it or not.

— A. A. Gill

“It's all about aesthetics, morality and aesthetics are completely similar.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Josef Albers

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Desire for beauty will endure and undermine the desire for truth.”

— Richard O. Prum

The films dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.

— Edward Dmytryk

“Normative Economics is like religion without the aesthetics.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take…

— Virginia Postrel

If you come at movies with your own sense of morality and not your own sense of aesthetics, I think you're screwed.…

— Bret Easton Ellis

I'm a passionate believer in the inherent creativity possessed by all people and our inherent ability--if it's not clouded by convention--to appreciate…

— Anonymous

“They walked on rather aimlessly. He hoped she wouldn't notice he was touched, because he wouldn't have known how to explain why.…

— Patrick White

I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.

— August Wilson

The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so…

— Eduard Hanslick

Movies and television show build on top of each other, succeed one another. In a large way, in terms of filmmaking aesthetics,…

— Sam Esmail

“The better looking you are the harder your life, under one condition: You're of above average intelligence. It's those unintelligent attractive people…

— Gregor Collins

It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and…

— Stephanie Mills

“Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his conscious reflection,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things…

— Camille Paglia

“We sing lyrical excess, exacerbated expressionism, imponed objectivity, inventiveness, meta-baroque, extravaganza, super metaphor, sublimity, strident, exposure, super-pone, noise, super-objectivity, zillionism, fragmentation and…

— Lepota L. Cosmo

And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the world,…

— Anne Rice

It sometimes happens that you just know... You have a feeling that things are coinciding, and that they operate and work on…

— Paolo Pellegrin

In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style. The style of Parisian architecture…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

“There could be no objection to homicidal art as art. One could certainly object that an artwork made out of dead bodies…

— John McAteer

I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.

— Twyla Tharp

I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.

— Yann Martel

When I was little, I just was very tuned in to the functionality and aesthetics of things around me.

— Thomas Heatherwick

Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not.

— Susan Sontag

Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

— Jimenez Lai

Art shouldn't be only the aesthetics we hang on the wall, but a dynamic to shape the society.

— Genco Gulan

Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.

— George Santayana

Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.

— Miguel

I believe that one of the most powerful things of all is aesthetics.

— Kalle Lasn

Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and…

— Oscar Wilde

I don't think it is even possible to define what a good photograph is, so it is difficult to instruct anybody how…

— Michael Kenna

“Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a…

— Harold Bloom

Every artist, writers included, have an ethics and an aesthetics, whether they can formulate them or not. I happen to think that…

— Aleksandar Hemon

[I'm concerned with] aesthetics and this idea of how the passage between life and death goes. I can visually present that by…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

“When a man, filled with a mixture of reverence and bewilderment, asks, “What on earth does this all mean?”, a child will…

— Gustav Mahler

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no…

— John Cusack