Aesthetics Quote by John McAteer

“According to this view, all that matters to art appreciation is beauty of form. The logical extreme of aestheticism turns out to be homicidal…

— John McAteer

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death,

— Leonard Baskin

Art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

— Jacques Lipchitz

“If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom…

— Oscar Wilde

I always think that in some way, art is the best tool we have to prepare for death. It's like a sculpture that you…

— John Cameron Mitchell

The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to…

— Constantin Brancusi

Art is a protest against death.

— Audrey Flack

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Art brings to life things that can seemingly be dead, and can put a fresh perspective on things that are living. It's so important…

— Mark Foster

We have art in order not to die of life.

— Albert Camus

I was asked in 1969 by Lucy Lippard to define art. I think at the time I said that art was a matter of…

— Tony Shafrazi

Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.

— Edward Steichen