Aesthetic Quote by Clive Bell

“The critic can affect my aesthetic theories only by affecting my aesthetic experience. All systems of aesthetics must be based on personal experience--that is…

— Clive Bell

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

— Oscar Wilde

The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...

— Leo Tolstoy

Choosing what we think rather than reaction to our emotions.

— Anonymous

There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting…

— Paul Gauguin

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .

— Socrates

We can't determine our emotions, but we can choose our attitudes and actions.

— Gary Chapman

I've had so much positive reaction and emotional fulfillment from the creation of my art and sharing it with everyday people that I never…

— Thomas Kinkade

If the contemplation, even of inanimate beauty, is so delightful; if it ravishes the senses, even when the fair form is foreign tous: What…

— David Hume

I'm not a natural criticizer - I prefer to like and praise and so on.

— George Saunders

My emotions kind of shine through my face, so whatever I'm thinking is what I'm portraying as well.

— Laurie Hernandez

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on…

— John Keats