Aesthetic Quote by Patrick Swift

“What used to be moral is aesthetic for us. What was social is now individual.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Schiller never wanted to replace the moral with the aesthetic but he did want the moral to be one part of the aesthetic. He…

— Frederick C. Beiser

Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.

— James Russell Lowell

“The long history of this idea before Kant made it the basis of his Critique of Judgment shows that the concept of taste was…

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

I believe our task is to develop a moral and aesthetic imagination deep enough and wide enough to encompass the contradictions of our time…

— Richard Tarnas

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

— Susan Sontag

Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.

— Jean Cocteau

“What do I want to be when I grow up? An attractive role would be that of the bunjin. He is the Japanese scholar…

— Donald Richie

I don't think we should be deceived that art is such a moral thing.

— Svetlana Alexievich

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe