Aesthetic Quotes

445 Aesthetic quotes by 363 unique authors

What I affirm is the intuition that where God's presence is no longer a tenable supposition and where His absence is no longer a felt,… — George Steiner
The extent of my personal BMX adventures were all [on] dirt tracks. But just the aesthetic of it that early-to-mid-'80s BMX is something that's just… — Matt Skiba
Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where… — R. Buckminster Fuller
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with… — Sloane Crosley
It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read… — John Cusack
When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to… — John Cusack
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. — Claude Debussy
To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is… — Arthur Conan Doyle
I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much… — Marcel Duchamp
Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics. — Dave Eggers
Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad. — Arthur Erickson
The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of… — Arthur Erickson
I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity. — Mohsin Hamid
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. — Seamus Heaney
To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and… — Edward Hopper
I guess when I look over my shoulder at other designers, I feel like people are so definitive. It's so clear to me what their… — Marc Jacobs
In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they… — Arne Jacobsen
For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through. — Steve Jobs
Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic… — Jon Landau
I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and… — Spike Lee
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. — Sophia Loren
Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the day, they never… — Wynton Marsalis
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual,… — Roberto Burle Marx

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