Aesthetic Quote by J. G. Ballard Download Open image “I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.” — J. G. Ballard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aesthetic Creativity Imagination Mean People Possible Thinking Today
It never ceases to amaze me how art can touch and inspire people. — Albert II, Prince of Monaco Copy Share Image
Perhaps why so much of today's photography doesn't grab us or mean anything to our personal lives is that it fails to touch upon… — Arthur Tress Copy Share Image
It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
People will get tired of overly retouched images soon and they'll want something different. If people have too much reality, they want fantasy. What… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience? — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
That experience of touching down in a totally foreign place is like having a blank canvas: You begin with nothing, but stroke by stroke… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts. — Richard Prince Copy Share Image
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
There are some people, who place enormous value on their home and feel that it defines them, that a stain on the carpet is… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will helpthe inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If… — Yves Behar Copy Share Image
I don't think I was ever thinking critically about my aesthetic, I think it's enough when you're little just to understand that you can… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
I'm kind of still down with Virg Woolf on this one: "women must kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have been 'killed'… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I try to get the hip-hop aesthetic, most times without an MC. I don't use a rapper or a DJ to give it the… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account. — John Maus Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is not necessary… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
