Aesthetic Quotes

445 Aesthetic quotes by 363 unique authors

To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.… — Marcel Duchamp
I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but… — Jeremy Northam
Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction. — Steven Soderbergh
When objects are presented within the context of art (and until recently objects always have been used) they are as eligible for aesthetic consideration as… — Joseph Kosuth
Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises out… — Harold Bloom
All I can say about the work I try to do, is that the aesthetic is in reality itself. — Helen Levitt
It is very important to be aware that you may never be satistied with your analytic career if you feel that you are restricted to… — Wilfred Bion
I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do — Pat Metheny
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic… — Oscar Wilde
A work of art can be called revolutionary if, by virtue of the aesthetic transformation, it represents, in the exemplary fate of individuals, the prevailing… — Herbert Marcuse
Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians. — Alfred North Whitehead
Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with… — Alain Badiou
If I could be said to have any kind of aesthetic, itâ€™s sort of a magpie aestheticâ€”I just go and pick up whatever is around.… — Sally Mann
To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the kind is an unchristian conception… — Soren Kierkegaard
Evidence that [feminine aesthetic preferences and ways of expressing oneself] may be hardwired comes from the fact that they typically appear early in childhood and… — Julia Serano
Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art. — Fred Ross
Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again. — Ben Shneiderman
Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. On top of that,… — Samuel Mockbee
The good designer aims at a perfect fusion of the various considerations which enter into his design. He aims at an untortured unity-a direct whole.… — Leo Lionni
Good design is innovative Gives a product utility Is aesthetic Makes a product easy to understand Is unobtrusive Is honest Is long-lived Is consistent down… — Dieter Rams

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