Beauty Quote by James David Lewis-Williams

“The morality of artists is replaced by aesthetics.”

— Herman Hesse

The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.

— Edward Ruscha

“Fear of aesthetics is the first sign of powerlessness”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I glanced over all the magazine and newspaper articles I could find, but the difference between the image I’d invented and the person I…

— Haruki Murakami

In images,... beauty was the agency that caused visual pleasure in the beholder; and any theory of images that was not grounded in the…

— Dave Hickey

“The earliest impressions are pictographic in form - little pictures that are the stylized versions of the things they represent. And most things they…

— Chris Godsen

“[...] For the first time ever, images of art have become ephemeral, ubiquitous, insubstantial, available, valueless, free. They surround us in the same way…

— John Berger

“Pictures tell the story of actual impulse in the artist—or the lack of it.”

— Robert Henri

“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

The first merit of pictures is the effect they produce on the mind; and the first step of a sensible man should be to…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“There are two gifts which every man of images needs to be a true creator: a certain sensitivity to life, to living things, and…

— Brassaï

The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call…

— Clive Bell