Aesthetics Quotes

Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.

— Barnett Newman

“The morality of artists is replaced by aesthetics.”

— Herman Hesse

Ethics and aesthetics are one.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Art is what appeals to the a priori.”

— Raheel Farooq

“Our sole concern with the long dead is aesthetic”

— James Branch Cabell

“All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.”

— Susan Sontag

Television is coitus interruptus brought into aesthetics.

— Norman Mailer

“Beauty exists when nature speaks and the heart listens.”

— Rashid Jorvee

To me there is an intimate relationship between austerity and more lush aesthetics. They're two faces of the same coin.

— Sally Potter

Domination has its own aesthetics, and democratic domination has its democratic aesthetics.

— Herbert Marcuse

Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.

— Ben Shneiderman

When you make work, the concept is the basis for it; all choices of aesthetics or mediums come later.

— Doug Aitken

Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.

— Barnett Newman

“The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.”

— Annie Cohen-Solal

It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making.

— Cory Doctorow

This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice.

— Asger Jorn

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

— Eduard Hanslick

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

“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

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

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

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

I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the…

— Deepak Chopra

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust in their…

— Werner Herzog

I don't think neurobiology is going to replace aesthetics or art history. It's a parallel discipline that adds a new dimension. I…

— Eric Kandel

Vegetarianism has nothing to do with religion: it is something basically scientific. It has nothing to do with morality, but it has…

— Rajneesh

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

Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences…

— Cornel West

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

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

“I want to say something about bad writing. I'm proud of my bad writing. Everyone is so intelligent lately, and stylish. Fucking…

— Ariana Reines

..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

“Were they aware, in the intensity of their embrace, of something slightly ridiculous about this tableau, something almost comical, as someone nearby…

— Sally Rooney

“Now I myself, I cheerfully admit, feel that enormity in Kensington Gardens as something quite natural. I feel it so because I…

— G.K. Chesterton

“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

“It is natural to care for those who have cared for us, but at the point a man has been dead a…

— Joshua Gibbs

“The novel has accompanied man uninterruptedly and faithfully since the beginning of the Modern Era. It was then that the "passion to…

— Milan Kundera

“When a work of painting, music or other form attains two-way communication, it is truly art. One occasionally hears an artist being…

— L. Ron Hubbard