Aesthetic Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“So much of this trip had been spent gazing at spectacular sights, which always filled me, as this one did now, with agonizing frustration.…

— Lily King

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and…

— Albert Einstein

“Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible,…

— Simona Panova

He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost…

— Cormac McCarthy

“He was there alone with himself, collected, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the serenity of the skies, moved in the…

— Victor Hugo

To every man, in his acquaintance with a new art, there comes a moment when that which before was meaningless first lifts, as it…

— Anonymous

“He wanted, in short, a work of art both for what it was in itself and for what it allowed him to bestow on…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“Living in a world where constantly one turned and touched incomprehension—they did not comprehend, he did not comprehend—gave the air the lift of uncertainty…

— Elizabeth Strout

“That was originally what I had loved him for: that at a period when our native land was nude and crude and provincial, when…

— Henry James

“His thinking was a dusk of doubt and selfmistrust lit up at moments by the lightnings of intuition, but lightnings of so clear a…

— James Joyce

... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of…

— Plutarch

“Often when he was not working he had come here and sat an entire afternoon, lulled by the din and music from the other…

— Paul Bowles