Aesthetic Quotes

445 quotes by 363 authors

You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly admit that I am strongly… — Werner Heisenberg
Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose,… — Henri Poincare
Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what exists; I make… — Gerhard Richter
Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like… — Richard Dawkins
Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of… — Alain de Botton
This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from… — Thomas Frank
Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important to know if… — William Shockley
The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have… — Verlyn Klinkenborg
More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it is… — Beaumont Newhall
Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an art… — Susan Sontag
Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other than wholly personal… — Unknown Author
The aesthetic value of creation cannot be overlooked. Our very contact with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and… — Pope John Paul II
The concept of the public welfare is broad and inclusive ... the values it represents are spiritual as well as physical, aesthetic as well as… — William O. Douglas
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. — Gaston Bachelard
Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach. — Albert Einstein
So I swear to God, I took one year where I just said, This year, I'm just going to cop to it and say to… — Brad Pitt
Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can… — Alan Cumming
The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that seductive land where… — Barry Humphries
The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world, to state in aesthetic creation the deepest psychic and personal experiences of… — Bruce Lee
It would be great to do another television show that was a multi-camera because the hours are so wonderful and you can be a good… — Kaitlin Olson

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