Aesthetic Quote by Derek Thompson

“It is not merely the feeling that something is familiar. It is one step beyond that. It is something new, challenging, or surprising that…

— Derek Thompson

The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call…

— Clive Bell

People often say that aesthetics is a branch of psychology. The idea is that once we are more advanced-all the mysteries of art-will be…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“As to “Aesthetic Considerations,” Ansel counseled, “A photograph that is merely a superficial record of the subject fails as an aesthetic expression of that…

— Mary Street Alinder

Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of…

— Oscar Wilde

“We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it. The objects that provoke aesthetic emotion vary with…

— Clive Bell

The aesthetic, as I understand it, is really about the way in which we understand beauty and speak and think about beauty.

— Kwame Dawes

“The aesthetic moment constitutes this deep rapport between subject and object”

— Christopher Bollas

Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.

— Daniel Tammet

“Introducing the idea of beauty as a salve and of aesthetics making something difficult accessible.”

— Henri Cole

“Fear of aesthetics is the first sign of powerlessness”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention,

— Dorothea Lange