I never wanted to accept the position of the observer who is not involved in the situation. The technique and the aesthetics… — Antoine D'Agata Copy Share Image
For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In the metaphysical elements of aesthetics the various nonmoral feelings are to be made use of; in the elements of moral metaphysics… — Immanuel Kant 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
“Read as little as possible in the way of aesthetics and criticism - it will either be partisan views, fossilized and made… — Rainer Maria Rilke 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
“There could be no objection to homicidal art as art. One could certainly object that an artwork made out of dead bodies… — John McAteer Copy Share Image
In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style. The style of Parisian architecture… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
I describe it ( the new aesthetics) 'radically': I say aesthetics = human being. That is a radical formula. I set the… — Joseph Beuys 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
Aesthetics does not exist for the camera as an isolated entity. Aesthetics, in fact, is inseparable from the purpose of the photographer… — Sid Grossman Copy Share Image
A lot of my ideas come from McNally Jackson bookstore. One of my favorite things to do is just go there and… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
I consider morals and aesthetics one and the same, for they cover only one impulse, one drive inherent in our consciousness -… — Naum Gabo 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
The (U.K.) government's thesis that the countryside of upland and coastal Britain is 'worth sacrificing to save the planet' is an insult… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
“Art becomes so specialized as to be comprehensible only to artists, and they complain bitterly of public indifference to their work. Competition… — Wassily Kandinsky 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
Most craft give a nod, however brief and unfriendly, towards beauty. Vogon ships did not nod towards beauty. They pulled on ski… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
“The answer to these questions is tied to the public's attitude about suicide. For many people, suicide is morally reprehensible. It's against… — John Bateson 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
It is a mistake to suppose, with some philosophers of aesthetics, that art and poetry aim to deal with the general and… — Ernest Fenollosa Copy Share Image