“Never worry about the reader, what the reader can understand. When you are writing, glance over your shoulder, and you’ll find there… — Richard Hugo 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
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
Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative; and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
“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 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 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
Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every… — Jan Koum 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
“When people dis fantasy—mainstream readers and SF readers alike—they are almost always talking about one sub-genre of fantastic literature. They are talking… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Finer feeling, which we now wish to consider, is chiefly of two kinds: the feeling of the *sublime* and that of the… — Immanuel Kant 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 life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one.” — Tom Robbins 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
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
There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at… — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
One shouldn’t believe in all those so-called innovations. There is only one nature and only one way to see it. Nowadays, they… — William-Adolphe Bouguereau 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
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
Cycling is based so much on form, on aesthetics, on class - the way you carry yourself on the bike, the sort… — David Millar Copy Share Image
You can't control chemistry. You can't control, you know, just similar aesthetics creatively. And, you know, David and I didn't know each… — Debra Messing Copy Share Image
For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
