"Art for art's sake is an empty phrase.……" — George Sand

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• At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics… — Rudolf Arnheim
• I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one. — Josef Albers
• I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition… — Deepak Chopra
• [Alexei Nemov] has the best feel for the aesthetics of the sport. He doesn't just do a skill; he makes… — Peter Vidmar
• After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and… — Albert Einstein
• Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new… — Oscar Wilde
• I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative… — Edwin Land
• Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds. — Barnett Newman
• An agricultural landscape produces food but it also provides water, requires biodiversity to underpin soil function, pollination and other useful… — Tim Benton
• Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust… — Werner Herzog
• The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science… — Louis Althusser
• I wish I could be a better writer, but writing is so difficult. I get seduced by visual aesthetics. Because… — Sally Mann

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