Aesthetic Quotes
445 quotes by 363 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
— Gaston Bachelard
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Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.
— Albert Einstein
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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