Aesthetics Quotes

99 Aesthetics quotes by 87 unique authors

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be… — Paul Rand
Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical… — Paul Rand
Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or creates by committee,… — Paul Rand
I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics. — Jeremy Renner
It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these… — Jerry Saltz
The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems… — Will Self
There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then you see what… — Karl Urban
Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. — Paul Rand
Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings. — Kay Redfield Jamison
Most craft give a nod, however brief and unfriendly, towards beauty. Vogon ships did not nod towards beauty. They pulled on ski masks and mugged… — Eoin Colfer
Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences in terms of… — Cornel West
Ethics and aesthetics are one. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was… — Eric Jerome Dickey
Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that… — George Sand
Whenever there's a change with Jazz & its aesthetics, it's almost always reflected with a change in the culture. — Tom Harrell
I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty. — Miuccia Prada
I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren. — Twyla Tharp
Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive. — Ira Glass
I believed in the Catholic position, the Catholic view of ethics and aesthetics, for a long time. But I wanted something not intellectual, some conviction… — Joyce Kilmer
This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of… — Kenneth L. Pike
But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep… — Rudolf Otto
And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the world, yes, and laws,… — Anne Rice
I'm a passionate believer in the inherent creativity possessed by all people and our inherent ability--if it's not clouded by convention--to appreciate authentic beauty in… — Porter Arneill
Aesthetics happen. — Porter Arneill

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