Aesthetic Quote by Robert Nozick

A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study…

— Ben Shahn

The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest work of…

— Jacques Maritain

Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

— John Ruskin

We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.

— Eli Siegel

Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because…

— Laurie Anderson

There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms of human…

— John Zachary Young

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for…

— Aldous Huxley

Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which…

— Carl Jung

Aesthetic culture is not the high-road to all the virtues, and, indeed, certain of the vices have been known to infest it. Neither, on…

— Lewis Foreman Day

The entire vitality of art depends upon its being either full of truth, or full of use; and that, however pleasant, wonderful, or impressive…

— John Ruskin

The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future…

— Paul Cezanne