Aesthetic Quotes

445 Aesthetic quotes by 363 unique authors

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
There's something about fear and aesthetic that go hand in hand. — Christopher Bollen
It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage — W. Somerset Maugham
We must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and aesthetic values as we now give… — Lewis Mumford
Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. Camp doesn't reverse things. It doesn't argue that the good is bad,… — Susan Sontag
I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty. — Marcel Duchamp
Aesthetic delectation is the danger to be avoided. — Marcel Duchamp
The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a superior utility in… — Thorstein Veblen
The changing styles are the expression of a restless search for something which shall commend itself to our aesthetic sense; but as each innovation is… — Thorstein Veblen
The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession. — Thorstein Veblen
The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs. — Robert Schumann

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