Aesthetic Quote by James Joyce

“The esthetic image in the dramatic form is life purified in and reprojected from the human imagination. The mystery of esthetic, like that of…

— James Joyce

“The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring…

— James Joyce

The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative, finally refines…

— James Joyce

“None can sense more deeply than you artists, ingenious creators of beauty that you are, something of the pathos with which God at the…

— Pope John Paul II

“Art, said Stephen, is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.”

— James Joyce

“Remember, art is an extension of self. …. The unique distinction of being created in the image of God is that what we create…

— Erwin Raphael McManus

“A sculpture of the magnificent shape of God. Oh, admittedly it was a shallow rendering of That Which Cannot Be Named; but art is…

— Laird Barron

“The artist is a constructor of mirrors through which humanity can recognize their own beauty.”

— Manuela Nicolini

“If we see some admirable work of human art, we are at once eager to investigate the nature, the manner, the end of its…

— Bruce L. Shelley

“We are talking about an artist; What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his effects out…

— G.K. Chesterton

“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 creator wrestles with a hard, invisible substance, a substance far superior to him. Even the greatest victor emerges vanquished, because our deepest secret,…

— Nikos Kazantzakis