Esthetic Quotes

30 quotes by 27 authors

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end. — Milan Kundera
What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring — Soren Kierkegaard
The Constitution exists precisely so that opinions and judgments, including esthetic and moral judgments about art and literature, can be formed, tested, and expressed. What… — Anthony Kennedy
Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon ! — Man Ray
Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of… — Edward Abbey
Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic… — Edward Abbey
The climbing as a whole is not very esthetic or enjoyable; it is merely difficult. — Yvon Chouinard
Music needs the juxtaposition of opposites to achieve its drama, so harshness and dissonance are simply part of the material a musician can use to… — Chuck Israels
A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through… — Robert Smithson
Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades...It springs newborn out of a boredom with the finality and over-saturation of Abstract-Expressionism, which,… — Robert Indiana
Integration proceeds by just the opposite route: a deliberate heightening of every organic function; a release of impulses from circumstances that irrationally thwarted them; richer… — Lewis Mumford
The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good. — George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesnâ€™t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core… — Aaron Siskind
I can say-not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological , ethical, political and esthetic roots-that the United States… — Ayn Rand
There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even though I indeed… — Kenny Smith
And how deeply do I let business considerations affect [screenwriting] choices that might otherwise be more or less esthetic? . . . Do I choose… — Edward Zwick
Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end.Â If art was only business, then rock… — Dan Graham
I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white heat. — Walker Evans
Are you an artist? Look about you. Is there a physical tool whose use you have mastered, a part of your body that responds utterly… — Robert Breault
There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The interface may be… — Robert Breault

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