Aesthetic Quote by George Santayana

“Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in…

— Harold Bloom

“The goal of all principled people is to recognize truth. Simple or complex thoughts and feelings standing alone rarely express any universal truths. Thoughts…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or creates by…

— Paul Rand

I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive…

— Ira Sachs

The connection between romantic politics and aesthetics is plain in Schiller's and Novalis's concept of the aesthetic or poetic state.

— Frederick C. Beiser

Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be…

— Franz Grillparzer

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that…

— Deepak Chopra

Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an attempt to…

— Daniel Tammet

I don't think neurobiology is going to replace aesthetics or art history. It's a parallel discipline that adds a new dimension. I always compare…

— Eric Kandel

“All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.”

— Susan Sontag

In our view the Olympic idea involves a strong physical culture supplemented on the one hand by mobility, what is so aptly called 'fair…

— Pierre de Coubertin

There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then you see…

— Karl Urban

I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.

— Twyla Tharp

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe