Aesthetics Quote by Richard O. Prum Download Open image ““Desire for beauty will endure and undermine the desire for truth.”” — Richard O. Prum ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aesthetics Beauty Darwinism Desire Evolution Feedback-loop Mate-choice Natural selection Ronald-a-fisher Sexual-selection Truth
“The truly awful thing about beauty is that it reminds us of our limits. Beauty is a kind of unrelenting cruelty. It takes truth,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“beauty alters the grain of reality. And I keep thinking too of the more conventional wisdom: namely, that the pursuit of pure beauty is… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Aim for truth, and beauty will follow. Aim for beauty, and truth will not necessarily follow.” — Chuck Wachtel Copy Share Image
“Beauty comes in all shapes, colours and sizes and when we can accept this truth, we will no longer hurt ourselves or each other… — Gregory Landsman Copy Share Image
“Heaven forbid if beauty were to have substance. Genuine beauty is always meaningless, without virtue” — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“Beauty, then, is a fragment of the divine, and the sight of it saddens us by evoking our sense of loss and our yearning… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“In a sense, beauty is what one chooses to feel by virtue of what one chooses to imitate and to create.” — Robert Pack Copy Share Image
“The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to the seeker after it.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“In a Fisherian world, animals are slaves to evolutionary fashion, evolving extravagant and arbitrary displays and tastes that are all "meaningless"; they do not… — Richard O. Prum Copy Share Image
“Females are frightened by aggressive male displays they actually prefer.” — Richard O. Prum Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and… — Colin Marston Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Probably the high-watermark of [Bob] Dylan's career came after he plugged in his guitar ("Judas!" one fan shouted during a concert) and exploded American… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
Road cycling, especially up mountains. It's the heady mixture of endorphins and aesthetics that I love. My wife does it too, and being with… — Gary Kemp Copy Share Image
“No man sings as beautifully as when his song is accompanied by a woman’s voice.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
[Alexei Nemov] has the best feel for the aesthetics of the sport. He doesn't just do a skill; he makes it look gorgeous. Some… — Peter Vidmar Copy Share Image
The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough. Banality here… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We’re surrounded by anonymous, poorly made objects. It’s tempting to think it’s because the people who use them don’t care-just like the people who make them. But what we’ve shown is that people do care. It’s not just about aesthetics. They care about things that are thoughtfully conceived and well made. We make and sell a very, very large number… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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