Aesthetic Quote by Thorstein Veblen

Real beauty in the arts is eternal and would be accepted at all periods; but it wears the dress of its century: something of…

— Eugene Delacroix

Beauty has became a pejorative word in art. It was not something one should aspire to, because it was pedestrian. Beautiful things became cheap…

— Damian Loeb

The aesthetic, as I understand it, is really about the way in which we understand beauty and speak and think about beauty.

— Kwame Dawes

Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the very loftiest…

— Robert Nozick

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

— Max Eastman

The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade…

— Oscar Wilde

Beauty has never been absolute and immutable but has taken on different aspects depending on the historical period and the country

— Umberto Eco

Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other.

— Richard Flanagan

There's no specific aesthetic other than a sense of the beautiful itself, I suppose.

— Kristoffer Rygg

“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

The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the…

— Herbert Read

“All these appeals to art to set herself more in harmony with modern progress and civilisation, and to make herself the mouthpiece for the…

— Oscar Wilde