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Quotes About Aesthetic

There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
~ J. G. Ballard
Taste is a matter of taste.
~ Jay McInerney
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
~ Jean Cocteau
Beauty is my heritage and my core. But my passion is design for the spaces where we live and work.
~ Aerin Lauder
I try to get the hip-hop aesthetic, most times without an MC. I don't use a rapper or a DJ to give it the hip-hop style; it's strictly the band that makes that music, which is a lot harder to do.
~ Robert Glasper
I like beautiful things that are striking.
~ Emily Beecham
You can look at Lil Uzi and know he has a strong opinion about his aesthetic.
~ Virgil Abloh
A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now.
~ John Desmond Bernal
Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.
~ Arthur Erickson
After 'The Fellowship of the Ring,' the films that followed it, instead of having their own unique aesthetic, they all wanted to be 'Lord of the Rings' as opposed to learning from 'Lord of the Rings.'
~ Duncan Jones
I've always felt like an outcast. My aesthetic is very high-end, but I still get classified as streetwear. There's really no other reason for than other than my age, the way I look, and where I'm from.
~ Kerby Jean-Raymond
I love a gray-on-gray outfit.
~ Loren Gray
I've had to make time to really explore all the amazing things that are out and try to understand the history of how fashion has moved through modern times and how it shaped everything, from overall aesthetic to design to how it's influenced the great artists of our time.
~ Christopher Jackson
I think the feeling of being kind of overwhelmed is almost part of the aesthetic of the work.
~ David Maisel
In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.
~ Tom Robbins
The idea that writerly originality appears from nowhere, or exists as something in isolation, a thing to be guarded and protected from influence, is lunacy. Anyone who doesn't school themselves by deep, wide, and idiosyncratic reading is choosing aesthetic poverty. Such aesthetic cloistering is like protecting your virginity in the belief that it will make you better at sex.
~ Tony Hoagland
They walked on rather aimlessly. He hoped she wouldn't notice he was touched, because he wouldn't have known how to explain why. Here lay the great discrepancy between aesthetic truth and sleazy reality.
~ Patrick White
A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.
~ Robert Smithson
The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.
~ Clive Bell
Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.
~ Luis Barragan
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
~ Jean Cocteau
Art... can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations.
~ Guy Debord
I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.
~ Amy Tan
In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste.
~ Helmut Newton