Aesthetic Quotes

445 Aesthetic quotes by 363 unique authors

Being dead is the most airtight defense of one's own aesthetic. — Sarah Ruhl
A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute,… — Marcel Proust
If theory is the role of the architect, then such beautiful proofs are the role of the craftsman. Of course, as with the great renaissance… — Michael Atiyah
At its heart, music is all higher mathematics. — Mos Def
It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is even prettier than… — Robert L. Devaney
The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan, and then, when… — Freeman Dyson
I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me consorting with all… — M.C. Escher
If you don't read poetry how the hell can you solve equations? — Harvey Jackins
A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written. — Morris Kline
But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following. — Henri Poincare
...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists. — Paul Simon
Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface… — Stephen Sondheim
How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell… — Henry David Thoreau
We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion… — Henry David Thoreau
The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups. — Steven Weinberg
Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as we… — Hermann Weyl
Mathematics and art are quite different. We could not publish so many papers that used, repeatedly, the same idea and still command the respect of… — Antoni Zygmund
All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave… — Marshall McLuhan
It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country. — Hector Hugh Munro
I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of… — Leo Kottke
I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those… — Ayad Akhtar
There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.' — Catherine Opie
I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist. — Alan Parker
Let the women play in more feminine clothes like they do in volleyball. They could, for example, have tighter shorts. Female players are pretty, if… — Sepp Blatter
Footballers today are forced to conform to a bodily aesthetic that in its rigidity and uniformity makes fashion models look as varied as snowflakes. This… — Danny Baker

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