Aesthetics Quote by Murray Krieger

“There's something intrinsically radical about the fantastic aesthetic - starting from the premise that the impossible is true, attempting to undermine expectations.”

— China Miéville

“In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one.”

— Tom Robbins

“The morality of artists is replaced by aesthetics.”

— Herman Hesse

“Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in…

— Harold Bloom

“When we see things from a different perspective, they either transform into fair features or slip under the cloak of the collective unconscious… overruled…

— Kayla Severson

“Try convincing ideologues that upholding grace and beauty in ugly times is itself a revolutionary act.”

— Jim Ridley

“Read as little as possible in the way of aesthetics and criticism - it will either be partisan views, fossilized and made meaningless in…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Art is, in its purity, an aesthetic means of expression in a time of rising neglect.”

— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

“Aestheticism is the garbage of intuitive feeling.”

— Kazimir Severinovich Malevich

“Fear of aesthetics is the first sign of powerlessness”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The aesthetic construct, and nothing else, has taught us to expose ourselves to a non-enslaving experience of rank differences. The work of art is…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“Even the aesthetic activities of political opposites are one in their enthusiastic obedience to the rhythm of the iron system.”

— Theodor Adorno