Aesthetic Quote by Arthur Erickson

“Without aesthetic, design is either the humdrum repetition of familiar clichés or a wild scramble for novelty. Without the aesthetic, the computer is but…

— Paul Rand

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions…

— Lewis Mumford

“Reaction against the machine-culture. - The machine, itself a product of the highest intellectual energies, sets in motion in those who server it almost…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.

— Jonathan Swift

“Aestheticism is the garbage of intuitive feeling.”

— Kazimir Severinovich Malevich

Late twentieth-century machines have made thoroughly ambiguous the difference between natural and artificial, mind and body, self-developing and externally designed, and many other distinctions…

— Donna J. Haraway

Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound, relentless, unquenchable…

— Robert Motherwell

The other thing I felt was that the philosophical concept behind the experiences also looked like it had been designed by technicians and not…

— Thomas Dolby

I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place.…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the…

— Dave Eggers

Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound to make…

— Freya Stark