Aesthetic Quotes

445 Aesthetic quotes by 363 unique authors

It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and… — C.S. Lewis
Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained. — Ferdinand Porsche
Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting, — Andrea Illy
A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the… — Dieter Rams
I'm definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up was in being… — Jhonen Vasquez
A game may be as integral to a culture, as true an object of human aesthetic appreciation, as admirable a product of creativity as a… — Michael Dummett
Playing with appearances and mastering the arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in the acquisition of… — Robert Greene
In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold weather… — Ludwig von Mises
There are few humanities that could surpass in discipline, in beauty, in emotional and aesthetic satisfaction, those humanities which are called mathematics, and the natural… — Robert Watson-Watt
There is a great deal of emotional satisfaction in the elegant demonstration, in the elegant ordering of facts into theories, and in the still more… — Robert Watson-Watt
It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose… — George Orwell
A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses have… — Marcel Proust
...the feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling, which all mathematicians… — Henri Poincare
In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic. — Joseph Altuzarra
After illuminating the work of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Louise Bourgeois, Balthus, and other modern artists, Mieke Bal again demonstrates her extraordinary flair for cultural criticism in… — Jonathan Culler
Being dead is the most airtight defense of one's own aesthetic. — Sarah Ruhl
A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute,… — Marcel Proust
If theory is the role of the architect, then such beautiful proofs are the role of the craftsman. Of course, as with the great renaissance… — Michael Atiyah
At its heart, music is all higher mathematics. — Mos Def
It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is even prettier than… — Robert L. Devaney

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