Aesthetics Quote by James Branch Cabell Download Open image ““Our sole concern with the long dead is aesthetic”” — James Branch Cabell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aesthetics Cynicism Dead Death
“High on their posthumous pedestals, the dead become hard to see. Grief, deference, and the homogenizing effects of adulation blur the details, flatten the… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“If we devoted as much effort to investigating the dead as we do to building the weapons that make them dead, we’d know a… — Jason Arnopp Copy Share Image
Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still. We show… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Oh! how immaterial are all materials! What things real are there, but imponderable thoughts? Here now ’s the very dreaded symbol of grim death,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The dead have existed for as long as the living, give or take a few years. But what good has that done them?” — James Aquilone Copy Share Image
“I liked the idea of marking the place where a life ends as opposed to the place a corpse is buried. And also the… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
“This obsession with death and suffering revealed itself in literature, poetry, art, and particularly in sculpture, with the appearance of cadaver tombs with an… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
“The dead are sensitive to the living. They have walked this path ahead of us and know our fears, our failings, our desperate hopes,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
American literature was enriched with Men Who Loved Allison .... Of the actual and eventual worth of this romance I cannot pretend to be… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Oh, do the Overlords of Life and Death always provide some obstacle to prevent what all of us have known in youth was possible… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
I am Manuel. I have lived in the loneliness which is common to all men, but the difference is that I have known it.… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
“That moving carcass does but very inadequately symbolizes you....a subtle and immortal spirit.” — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
People never want to be told anything they do not believe already. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books — brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished,… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
There are many of our so-called captains on industry who, if the truth were told, and a shorter and uglier word were not unpermissible,… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
And one would worship a woman whom all perfections dower, But the other smiles at transparent wiles; and he quotes from Schopenhauer . Thus… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and… — Colin Marston Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Probably the high-watermark of [Bob] Dylan's career came after he plugged in his guitar ("Judas!" one fan shouted during a concert) and exploded American… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
Road cycling, especially up mountains. It's the heady mixture of endorphins and aesthetics that I love. My wife does it too, and being with… — Gary Kemp Copy Share Image
“No man sings as beautifully as when his song is accompanied by a woman’s voice.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
[Alexei Nemov] has the best feel for the aesthetics of the sport. He doesn't just do a skill; he makes it look gorgeous. Some… — Peter Vidmar Copy Share Image
The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough. Banality here… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We’re surrounded by anonymous, poorly made objects. It’s tempting to think it’s because the people who use them don’t care-just like the people who… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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