Aesthetic Quotes

445 Aesthetic quotes by 363 unique authors

A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far more than merely… — Russell Page
If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as… — Ouida
They gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds. Tolkien became...devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity of the time.… — Christopher Tolkien
My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified… — Edith Wharton
The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and… — Christopher Tolkien
The film is a direct mirror of the director. If your director doesn't know how to dress, there will be an aesthetic of the film… — Channing Tatum
Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition. — George Santayana
We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of… — David Mamet
Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner… — Andre Breton
It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded. — Lewis Thomas
We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built… — Oswald Chambers
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance.… — Clive Bell
The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy. — Clive Bell
The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these… — Thom Mayne
Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language. — Leo Ornstein
For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm taking myself too seriously, but every… — Giovanni Ribisi
If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or misused but it'll also probably provide a way of people… — Richard Serra
I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it. — Zack Snyder
Of course it would depend on the project, but I don't think I could ever separate myself from my aesthetic. — Zack Snyder
My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters. — Mike White

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