Aesthetic Quotes
445 Aesthetic quotes by 363 unique authors
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The Japanese garden is a very important tool in Japanese architectural design because, not only is a garden traditionally included in any house design, the…
— Unknown Author
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If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with universal therefore gives us the…
— Piet Mondrian
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My hair is an aesthetic choice… At the same time, how you wear your hair is a political statement as well.
— Erykah Badu
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Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.
— Miguel
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Cubism is not a manner but an aesthetic, and even a state of mind; it is therefore inevitably connected with every manifestation of contemporary thought.…
— Juan Gris
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I’m interested in things which suggest the world rather than express the personality... The most conventional thing, the most ordinary - it seems to me…
— Jasper Johns
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The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak; when you’re…
— Ken Robinson
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How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashion's aesthetic should enhance…
— Coco Rocha
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Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as aesthetic objects without…
— Germaine Greer
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The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by aesthetic standards; rather,…
— Hermann Broch
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Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.
— Kazimir Malevich
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The business of both parent and teacher is to enable and to help the child to educate himself, to develop his own intellectual, moral, aesthetic…
— Sri Aurobindo
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One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense…
— Anish Kapoor
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It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.............. Great art remains stable and unobscure because the feelings that it…
— Clive Bell
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A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational and economic legacies - all of the things…
— Steve Berry
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If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.
— Asger Jorn
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I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas a moral and…
— Christopher Hitchens
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When does a session of The Theatre of the Oppressed end? Never – since the objective is not to close a cycle, to generate a…
— Augusto Boal
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I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique
— Edmund White
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People hide behind the word aesthetic. They say, ‘Well, it’s just that designer’s aesthetic.’ But when you see 18 seasons in a row and not…
— Joan Smalls
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