Aesthetic Quote by Richard Shusterman

The three branches of somaesthetics: the analytic study of the body's role in perception, experience, and action and thus in our mental, moral, and…

— Richard Shusterman

Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results.

— Hakim Bey

Most of us consist of two separated parts, trying desperately to bring themselves together into an integrated soma, where the distinctions between mind and…

— Carl Rogers

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

— Milan Kundera

Let us shun self-analyzation, self-consciousness, morbidness, affectation, attitudinizing. Let us look ahead as little as possible, keeping our eyes on our brushes and on…

— Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer

“Art, said Stephen, is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.”

— James Joyce

People often say that aesthetics is a branch of psychology. The idea is that once we are more advanced-all the mysteries of art-will be…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.

— Daniel Tammet

“Aesthetic sense is the twin of one's instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics.”

— Joseph Brodsky

The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call…

— Clive Bell

“As to “Aesthetic Considerations,” Ansel counseled, “A photograph that is merely a superficial record of the subject fails as an aesthetic expression of that…

— Mary Street Alinder

“In the psychology of aesthetics, there is a name for the moment between the anxiety of confronting something new and the satisfying click of…

— Derek Thompson