Aesthetic Quotes

445 Aesthetic quotes by 363 unique authors

Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy.… — Karen Armstrong
The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is… — Donald Knuth
The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, as water. We feel poetry as we feel… — Jorge Luis Borges
Rules of taste enforce structures of power. — Susan Sontag
Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism! You must achieve… — Philip Roth
It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body. — Charlaine Harris
For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had suddenly lost their… — Paul Auster
These are things that only dogs and women understand because we tap into the pain directly, we connect to pain directly from its source, and… — Garth Stein
The best and most innovative products don't always win...(it's an) aesthetic flaw in how the universe worked — Walter Isaacson
Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens… — Susan Sontag
Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle.… — Albert Einstein
Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent. — Roger Scruton
Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms. — Chaim Potok
It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function… — Raymond Loewy
The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship. — Havelock Ellis
Cosmic evolution may teach us how the good and evil tendencies of man may have come about; but, in itself, it is incompetent to furnish… — Thomas Huxley
I'm actually happier with my body now . . . because the body I have now is the body I've worked for. I have a… — Cindy Crawford
Do you really expect me to say gravity hasn't taken its toll? No. But as I'm earning these lines [in my face], I'm making an… — Susan Sarandon
I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty. — Miuccia Prada
Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two-dimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sans-serifs, and geometrics; which… — Paul Rand
Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance, form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form. — Paul Rand
I had always wanted to expand to beauty, but I knew I wanted to be able to translate my design aesthetic in an authentic way. — Charlotte Ronson
I actually taught perceptual psychology at N.Y.U. when I was younger. I was interested in the aesthetic impulse in lower primates. But what really interested… — Arne Glimcher
I get nonplussed by all the Fifties retro-revival aesthetic. Would we really want to be in our pinnies in our kitchen weeping? I find the… — Romola Garai
I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren. — Twyla Tharp

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