Aesthetic Quote by Havelock Ellis

“We can conclude from this that we are drawn to call something beautiful whenever we detect that it contains in a concentrated form those…

— Alain de Botton

“Women are mere "beauties" in men's culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable,…

— Naomi Wolf

Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.

— John Ruskin

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

— Kwame Dawes

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and…

— Remy de Gourmont

“And although this (marital love) cannot be portrayed artistically, then let your consolation be, as it is mine, that we are not to read…

— Kierkegaard

Nature holds the beautiful, for the artist who has the insight to extract it. Thus, beauty lies even in humble, perhaps ugly things, and…

— Albrecht Durer

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

— David Hume

Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Beauty has never been an important topic in the writings of the major psychologists. In fact, for Jung, aesthetics is a weak, early stage…

— James Hillman

Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences in terms…

— Cornel West

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

— Kristoffer Rygg