Aesthetic Quotes

445 Aesthetic quotes by 363 unique authors

Too much of what passes for design now is theater. It's one thing to be eccentric- and by the way, most eccentrics tend to be… — Albert Hadley
Nature supplies the game of chess with its implements; science with its system; art with its aesthetic arrangement of its problems; and God endows it… — Peter Weiss
For me it's really important that the work here displays an aesthetic of decay along with the sunken boat with the broken ceramic pieces. They… — Cai Guo-Qiang
It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is not necessary to… — Edith Schaeffer
We exist because of suburbia. Suburbia is a freakâ€™s dreamworld, a world of extra rooms upstairs and long, lazy afternoons with no interference. A place… — Dana Spiotta
Among the few I have indicated, is there no dynamic man of action, the rebel who will help determine the aspect of the collective expression… — Piet Zwart
Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us. — Pablo Picasso
Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health. — Robert Evans
Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know. — Daniel Tammet
I must pack my short lifer full of interesting events and creative activity. Philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. I intend to do everything… — Everett Ruess
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic. — Beatrice Wood
How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way… — A.S. King
I like the aesthetics of the Church. — Andres Serrano
I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones. — Andres Serrano
Green Giant contained a very strong and clear site and building design concept. Green Giant had strong formal, aesthetic and programmatic concepts, coupled with a… — Edward Mazria
Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It's not even clear if catching fish… — John Gierach
So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics? — Mark Poster
I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that… — Don Cupitt
The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons. — Ella Maillart
From the viewpoint of analytic psychology, the theatre, aside from any aesthetic value, may be considered as an institution for the treatment of the mass… — Carl Jung

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