Aesthetics Quote by Carl von Clausewitz

Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think…

— Helen Mirren

When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually,…

— Annabelle Selldorf

People often say that aesthetics is a branch of psychology. The idea is that once we are more advanced-all the mysteries of art-will be…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same way that…

— Rafael Vinoly

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

— Arthur Erickson

As an architect, I try to be guided not by habit but by a conscious sense of the past-by precedent, thoughtfully considered...As an artist,…

— Robert Venturi

In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.

— Helmut Jahn

“Art actually happens somewhere in the space between clarity and ambiguity, concept and intuition, thought and feeling.”

— Bert Dodson

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its…

— Walter Gropius

As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.

— George Henry Lewes

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

— Herbert Read