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
This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice. — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
While the aesthetics of consumption (photographic or otherwise) requires a heroicized myth of the artist, the exemplary practice of the player-off codes… — Abigail Solomon-Godeau 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
We got interested in aesthetics, and then at the end of all of it we fell off the precipice. It's almost like… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
What the computer can do in art and design has turned aesthetics on its head... with the computer, things are not so… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
..I sought a world philosophy-or an integral philosophy-that would believably weave together the many pluralistic contexts of science, morals, aesthetics, Eastern as… — Ken Wilber 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
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
Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular. — Donald Richie Copy Share Image
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 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
I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one. — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust in their… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road. — Ove Arup 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
“To speak of sparing anything because it is beautiful is to waste one’s breath and incur ridicule in the bargain. The aesthetic… — John Van Dyke Copy Share Image
I would throw out the sense of nation, "good breeding," certain forms and ceremonies that govern relationships - perhaps even jealousy. We're… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
“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