Aesthetic Quotes

445 Aesthetic quotes by 363 unique authors

Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or any issues at… — Gerhard Richter
The laws against public nudity make no sense. The idea that Jerry Falwell can go topless while Cindy Crawford cannot is an absolute affront to… — Peter McWilliams
I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic. — Stephen Bayley
I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point does a healthy amount become too… — Edmund White
The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the… — Helena Christensen
I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and… — Dylan McDermott
It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented… — Hans-Georg Gadamer
I'm interested in aesthetics, in the way things look, in finding something in an image that maybe people haven't seen. — Alexa Chung
The Indians have such strong traditions and aesthetics, and the people are beautiful, as are their goods. — Georgina Chapman
I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as… — Ana Castillo
Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the… — Stanley Crouch
Famously, Anne Boleyn was not a beauty: she was more about quirkiness and an innate sensuality, and there are a lot of references to her… — Natalie Dormer
Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, the real process… — Andre Breton
In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression. — Edward de Bono
Although I was born in Idaho and now live in New York, I definitely identify with the European aesthetic. Paris is my mecca; it's where… — Dree Hemingway
Somaaesthetics can be provisionally defined a the critical meliorative study of one's experience and use of one's body as a locus of sensory-aesthetic appreciation (aesthesis)… — Richard Shusterman
I am a person who holds the aesthetic high. I have suits made in Savile Row. — Gary Kemp
The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold fact that In… — Lev Grossman
What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an… — Victor Pinchuk
I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton,… — Victoria Legrand
Dramas need to have a certain aesthetic that comedy just doesn't really seem to need to have. — Rob McElhenney
By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art.… — Peter York
I don't make records that way, where I'm trying to please the marketplace or anything. Not because I have anything against that, it's just never… — Black Francis
Our entire being is fashioned as an instrument of praise. Just as a master violin maker designs an instrument to produce maximum aesthetic results, so… — Lamar Boschman
We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and ease. We may… — Bill McKibben

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