True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics. — Jeremy Renner Copy Share Image
So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics? — Mark Poster Copy Share Image
The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We don't want to be a design line. Ultimately, we want to be a platform that houses many design aesthetics. — Alexa Hirschfeld Copy Share Image
The Indians have such strong traditions and aesthetics, and the people are beautiful, as are their goods. — Georgina Chapman Copy Share Image
“Aesthetic sense is the twin of one's instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics.” — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language. — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one's sensitivity, one's respect, one's reverence for life. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim 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
Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained. — Ferdinand Porsche Copy Share Image
There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then… — Karl Urban Copy Share Image
Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health. — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough.… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
The goal is to align with your core group of collaborators, who understand your vision and aesthetics. I usually show them visual… — Marc Forster Copy Share Image
Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
This is not about the aesthetics: there is a rule in a society: "Whoever you deal with, makes you become them", therefore… — Janusz Korwin-Mikke Copy Share Image
Beauty has never been an important topic in the writings of the major psychologists. In fact, for Jung, aesthetics is a weak,… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the central question about [Eliot] Porter's work is about the relationship between science, aesthetics, and environmental politics. His brother, the painter… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“There would be no history as we know it, no religion, no metaphysics or aesthetics as we have lived them, without an… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“In the past an artist produced things that were necessary socially; they were instruments, albeit of a special kind, that helped the… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I'm not giving up on my work. I'm still trying to challenge people's aesthetics and myself. — Guido Palau Copy Share Image
For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life.” — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
“I think that's what art is: art is communication made in the hope that interesting miscommunications will arise.” — Misha Glouberman 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
I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular. — Donald Richie Copy Share Image
The goal changes from the general to the individual from need to wish, from ethics to aesthetics. — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more. — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
I'm not creating art that starts with politics or starts with ethics. I feel I am a conceptual artist because my art… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics… — Henry James Copy Share Image
A movie tends to box you in, at least as far as the aesthetics. You have an incredibly kinetic experience, which is… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“In a Fisherian world, animals are slaves to evolutionary fashion, evolving extravagant and arbitrary displays and tastes that are all "meaningless"; they… — Richard O. Prum Copy Share Image
Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which… — Leonard Bernstein 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
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
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