Importance Quote by Joseph Campbell

What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed.

— Susan Griffin

When objects are presented within the context of art (and until recently objects always have been used) they are as eligible for aesthetic consideration…

— Joseph Kosuth

What quality is shared by all objects that provoke our aesthetic emotions? Only one answer seems possible— significant form. In each, lines and colors…

— Clive Bell

Aesthetic experiences are powerful, to be sure, and probably inescapable, but Nature will not remain effective for very long.

— Timothy Morton

Superficially insignificant or accidental looking detail (in art) may well carry the most important unconscious symbolism.

— Anton Ehrenzweig

Beauty reveals itself in the course of an experience with an object.

— Howard Gardner

By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention…

— Michelangelo

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

— Miguel de Unamuno

Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy of…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I believe that one of the most powerful things of all is aesthetics.

— Kalle Lasn

And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality .

— Hans Hofmann