Aesthetic Quotes

445 Aesthetic quotes by 363 unique authors

I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms… — Stanley Crouch
The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly absorbed by fictions,… — George Steiner
Physical separateness can never be overcome by electronics, but only by 'conviviality,' by 'living together' in the most literal physical sense. The physically divided are… — Hakim Bey
A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because… — John Desmond Bernal
If sorrow and beauty are all tied up together, then perhaps maturity brings with it not what Nabhan calls abstraction, but an aesthetic sense that… — Rebecca Solnit
Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism. — Lawrence Weiner
The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets… — Franz Grillparzer
The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally. — Stephen Gardiner
Scientists don't know what they are talking about when they talk about religion. Religion has nothing to do with belief, and I don't believe it… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in… — Allen Ginsberg
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure… — Hans Hofmann
The emotional, physical and aesthetic value of a sound is linked not only to the causal explanation we attribute to it but also to its… — Michel Chion
Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. ... The… — David Gelernter
What liberates the imagination is the sense that work in its theory and practice holds aesthetic possibilities, that jobs can be elegantly conceived and gracefully… — Robert Grudin
I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who "appreciate" beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There's… — Pablo Picasso
I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic. — Clive Bell
An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows… — Antonio Tabucchi
Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like… — George Steinbrenner
Mars is not an aesthetic God. — John Brown Gordon
A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may… — David Mamet

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