Aesthetic Quote by Harold Bloom

“Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language”

— Anthony Burgess

“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

“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

I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or…

— Antoni Tapies

“Aestheticism is the garbage of intuitive feeling.”

— Kazimir Severinovich Malevich

“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 artist descends within himself, and in that lonely region of stress and strife, if he be deserving and fortunate, he finds the terms…

— Joseph Conrad

I think that's an important part of art in general. Especially in literature, in stories, we play with eventualities that may put us through…

— Brian Boyd

“Literary art's sudden, startling truth and beauty make us feel, in the most solitary part of us, that we are not alone, and that…

— Lee Siegel

“For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.

— Rachel Cusk

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with emotion.

— Rachel Cusk