I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
My favorite form is the short story. From an aesthetics stand point you really have to pare down to the bone. You… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“It may be that mathematics is not generally recognized as one of the arts precisely because so much pyramidal training and practice… — David Foster Wallace 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
Fewer publishers mean you have a limited set of aesthetics, so you know who can and can't send your work to. You… — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
“I think it's more accurate to think of aesthetics as a key ingredient in a recipe, as opposed to the icing on… — Stephen P. Anderson Copy Share Image
Where is automatism in the work of Chirico or Tanguy? Even Dali had to renounce it in order to be able to… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
“In the psychology of aesthetics, there is a name for the moment between the anxiety of confronting something new and the satisfying… — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to suppose, with some philosophers of aesthetics, that art and poetry aim to deal with the general and… — Ernest Fenollosa 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
Most craft give a nod, however brief and unfriendly, towards beauty. Vogon ships did not nod towards beauty. They pulled on ski… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
In contrast to the asexual chasteness of official communist art , Nazi art is both prurient and idealizing. A utopian aesthetics (physical… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Art becomes so specialized as to be comprehensible only to artists, and they complain bitterly of public indifference to their work. Competition… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
The (U.K.) government's thesis that the countryside of upland and coastal Britain is 'worth sacrificing to save the planet' is an insult… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Let a thing be but a sort of punctual surprise, like the first cache of violets in March, let it be delicate,… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
I came in making choices about how I deploy aesthetics and imagery strategically. It seems to me that's the only legitimate way… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I always try to appreciate the most fleeting moments. The idea of the acrobats constantly tumbling and trying to adjust - I… — Phillip Lim Copy Share Image
At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes,… — M. F. K. Fisher 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
“The aesthetic can have its revenge upon ideology by revealing a power to complicate that is also a power to undermine.” — Murray Krieger Copy Share Image
Science is a limited way of knowing, looking at just the natural world and natural causes. There are a lot of ways… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
“Tensurrealism creates actual and non-compromised reality, jamboree, fervor, fascination, poetics of an active enthusiasm, interludium, lyrical practice, active happiness.” — Lepota L. Cosmo Copy Share Image
The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just… — Colin Marston Copy Share Image
Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the… — Flea 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
In everything I do, the aesthetics are driven by the emotion. However I can do that with a camera, whether it's a… — Reed Morano 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
I have a confidence in my understanding of formal aesthetics and I don't want to be aware of it or make that… — Eva Hesse Copy Share Image
“Sylvia’s inherent appreciation for beauty as both artist and consumer is evident in her journals and letters…….she wrote beautifully about clothes. She… — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In our view the Olympic idea involves a strong physical culture supplemented on the one hand by mobility, what is so aptly… — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
This was in the sense that if Dada was reacting to the morality and aesthetics of pre-WWI, then we were very much… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
I consider morals and aesthetics one and the same, for they cover only one impulse, one drive inherent in our consciousness -… — Naum Gabo 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
Aesthetics does not exist for the camera as an isolated entity. Aesthetics, in fact, is inseparable from the purpose of the photographer… — Sid Grossman Copy Share Image
Style is, above all, a system of forms with a quality and a meaningful expression through which the personality of the artist… — Meyer Schapiro Copy Share Image
I describe it ( the new aesthetics) 'radically': I say aesthetics = human being. That is a radical formula. I set the… — Joseph Beuys 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
“If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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