Aesthetic Quotes

445 Aesthetic quotes by 363 unique authors

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the… — Amy Tan
There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then you see what… — Karl Urban
When I wasn't as attractive as I am now, I suffered at the hands of cruel children and their taunts until I realised that confidence… — Johnny Vegas
It's for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can't afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it -… — Vera Wang
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people. — Thomas J. Watson
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression. — Evelyn Waugh
My visual landscape as a child was the inside of a lot of these old churches. And the Baroque drama of the things was what… — Florence Welch
The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and trying stuff out on stage, having fun with… — Florence Welch
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. — Alfred North Whitehead
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. — E. O. Wilson
Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech. — George Edward Woodberry
Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty. — Romola Garai
You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to. — Romola Garai
He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening… — Henry James
Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Old stories would tell how Weavers would kill each other over aesthetic disagreements, such as whether it was prettier to destroy an army of a… — China Mieville
No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated.… — Richard P. Feynman
For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Let us, rather, gather facts, all the facts, regardless of aesthetic appeal or theoretical social worth, and spread those facts before us not as the… — Tom Robbins
In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity. — Baruch Spinoza
We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed… — Sarah Waters
All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any more than the… — David Foster Wallace
The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is… — Richard Dawkins
Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something that… — Jorge Luis Borges
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. — Oscar Wilde

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