The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
“No man sings as beautifully as when his song is accompanied by a woman’s voice.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Gentrifiers focus on aesthetics, not people. Because people, to them, are aesthetics.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible. — W. H. Auden 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
Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people. — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
“Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Game mechanics are the core of what a game truly is. They are the interactions and relationships that remain when all of… — Jesse Schell Copy Share Image
Probably the high-watermark of [Bob] Dylan's career came after he plugged in his guitar ("Judas!" one fan shouted during a concert) and… — Jay Michaelson 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
“When a man, filled with a mixture of reverence and bewilderment, asks, “What on earth does this all mean?”, a child will… — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
“Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every artist, writers included, have an ethics and an aesthetics, whether they can formulate them or not. I happen to think that… — Aleksandar Hemon 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
“when designers use clean aesthetics to cover over a complex reality—to take something human, nuanced, and rife with potential for bias, and… — Sara Wachter-Boettcher Copy Share Image
Aesthetics is not an end in itself. But in our culture, which is becoming more multi-sensory and less respectful of God, we… — Dan Kimball Copy Share Image
The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“Functionality still matters, of course. But competition has pushed quality so high and prices so low that many manufacturers can no longer… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
I don't have formal training at all, but I did grow up around design. My parents both flipped homes. A typical weekend… — Jeremiah Brent Copy Share Image
When you come from an environment that's military, and they don't stress that topic of aesthetics or beauty pageants and makeup, there… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
“At last everything was satisfactorily arranged, and I could not help admiring the setting: these mingled touches betrayed on a small scale… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“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
Take Einstein; wasn't he looking for something stable and changeless in this enormous, constantly changing melting pot that is the universe? He… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
“The assignment of meanings [in music] is a shifting, kaleidoscopic play, probably below the threshold of consciousness, certainly outside the pale of… — Susanne K. Langer Copy Share Image
“If I beat my grandmother to death to-morrow in the middle of Battersea Park, you may be perfectly certain that people will… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“More than once have I thought, Why does crime, even when as powerful as Cæsar, and assured of being beyond punishment, strive… — Henryk Sienkiewicz 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
“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
The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I'm interested in aesthetics, in the way things look, in finding something in an image that maybe people haven't seen. — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
Design is about the betterment of our lives poetically, aesthetically, experientially, sensorially, and emotionally. — Karim Rashid Copy Share Image
I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty. — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Whenever there's a change with Jazz & its aesthetics, it's almost always reflected with a change in the culture. — Tom Harrell Copy Share Image
I find beauty in the continual shaping of chaos which clearly embodies the primordial power of nature's performance — Iris van Herpen Copy Share Image
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