Aesthetic Quote by Frederick C. Beiser

There is a sinister anachronistic interpretation of the aesthetic state as some kind of totalitarian regime that puts aesthetic over moral standards; one associates…

— Frederick C. Beiser

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

— Walter Hagen

“In all spheres of life, cultivating a sense of aesthetics, and developing a sense of the romantic, leads to both a deeper engagement with…

— Sebastian Marshall

Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

— Ayn Rand

Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

— Jimenez Lai

“its romantic embellishments – a”

— Penny Vincenzi

Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom?…

— Tom Stoppard

There's no specific aesthetic other than a sense of the beautiful itself, I suppose.

— Kristoffer Rygg

“Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live.”

— Ludwig von Mises

The romantics really did want to romanticise the world itself, and that meant re-creating the state, society and even nature so that it became…

— Frederick C. Beiser

“More specifically, this book turns to ugly feelings to expand and transform the category of “aesthetic emotions,” or feelings unique to our encounters with…

— Sianne Ngai

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

— Kwame Dawes