Aesthetic Quote by Lawrence Weiner

“. . . It comes down to that urge to fascism to know what’s best for people, to know that some people are of…

— Griel Marcus

Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray…

— Louis de Bernieres

I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.

— Alan Parker

“We need to stop excusing mediocre and downright pernicious art, stop 'taking it for what it’s worth' as we take our fast foods, our…

— Anonymous

In contrast to the asexual chasteness of official communist art , Nazi art is both prurient and idealizing. A utopian aesthetics (physical perfection; identity…

— Susan Sontag

Basically, at this time, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste and saw the individual making this imposition…

— Henry Flynt

Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.

— Emile Zola

Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind…

— Henry Flynt

Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

— Oscar Wilde

Art is observing society around you, representing it through your eyes.

— Mark Foster

Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

— Wyndham Lewis

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

— W. Somerset Maugham