Aesthetics Quotes

99 Aesthetics quotes by 87 unique authors

I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those… — Ayad Akhtar
My role is to find strategic insights as to where design can have the most business impact. A designer can bring a viewpoint of not… — John Maeda
The eye is the painter and the ear the singer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition. — George Santayana
Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not. — Susan Sontag
Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language. — Leo Ornstein
I'm interested in aesthetics, in the way things look, in finding something in an image that maybe people haven't seen. — Alexa Chung
The Indians have such strong traditions and aesthetics, and the people are beautiful, as are their goods. — Georgina Chapman
Zen is not morality, it is aesthetics. It does not impose a code of morality. it does not give you any commandments: do this, don't… — Rajneesh
It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and discipline to make… — Stephanie Mills
The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal. — Auguste Rodin
I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty. — Marcel Duchamp
One could go on for ever as to whether the paint should be thick or thin, whether to paint the woman or the square, hard-edge… — Lee Krasner
The goal changes from the general to the individual from need to wish, from ethics to aesthetics. — Asger Jorn
Talk can neither be verified nor falsified in any rigorous sense. This is an open secret which hermeneutics and aesthetics, from Aristotle to Croce, have… — George Steiner
Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with… — Sloane Crosley
It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read… — John Cusack
When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to… — John Cusack
Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics. — Dave Eggers
Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and… — Edward Hopper
Cycling is based so much on form, on aesthetics, on class - the way you carry yourself on the bike, the sort of technique you… — David Millar
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game. — Octavio Paz

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