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Quotes About Aesthetic

We have taken beauty and exchanged it for stilted voices.
~ Unknown
Much like Ros's novels, then, The Room is remarkable for the way it seems to expose the absurd artifices of its form by getting everything about that form so flagrantly wrong. Wiseau's failure to achieve the clichés he seems to aim for at the level of plot, dialogue, and performance eventually starts to look like aesthetic subversion.
~ Unknown
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Except for the American woman, nothing interests the eye of the American man more than an automobile, or seems so important to him as an object of aesthetic appreciation.
~ Unknown
Ma minds more than manners for the girls. She models an aesthetic appreciation of beautiful things, including these delicate floral offerings.
~ Unknown
Even so the program works. Is this not just an aesthetic judgment, a dislike of ugly code?
~ Martin Fowler
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion¦. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.
~ Unknown
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same
~ Helen Keller
People do sometimes sense the sacredness of nature, such as when they look closely at a flower, climb high peaks, or journey deep into the mountain. Such aesthetic sense, love, receptivity, and understanding are people's most basic instincts - their true nature. These days, however, human are flying in a completely different direction to some unknown destination, and they seem to be doing it as rapidly as possible.
~ Masanobu Fukuoka
The repercussion of ugliness is endless.
~ Massimo Vignelli
A game may be as integral to a culture, as true an object of aesthetic appreciation, as admirable a product of human creativity as a folk art or a style of music; and, as such, it is quite as worthy of study.
~ Unknown
Blue and Bronze
~ Unknown
this is the wish of the majority of the people. The aesthetic appeal of the Park can never be as strong as the demands of home and livelihood. The manatee and the orchids mean something to people in an abstract way, but he former can't line their purse, nor the latter fill their empty bellies.
~ Unknown
Each individual, however, can produce in himself a sort of cold revolution, by moving for a while outside the flow of information and advertising. This is quite simple: it has never been so easy to adopt an aesthetic position towards the world: you just need to step aside.'26 Suspend the will, be aware of the gap, actively practise being out of sync: Schopenhauer, now and forever. Agathe Novak-Lechevalier
~ Michel Houellebecq
The flux of life is pouring its aesthetic aspect into your eyes, your ears - and you ignore it because you are looking for your canons of beauty in some sort of frame or glass case or tradition.
~ Mina Loy
Poezia s-a sinucis avînd grij? s?-È™i fac? un nod foarte estetic la È™treang.
~ Unknown
Chaos is a great esthetician who accidentally generated the most beautiful landscapes of nature and the unique beauty of man.
~ Unknown
Philosophy and art are the taste of life, this is the cooking of symbolic subjectivism in search of pain from the spiritual insight of logical concreteness. Mental destruction for the sake of creating more perfect thinking. Where the mental gourmets of aesthetic awareness gather.
~ Unknown
The success of a civilization is measured not just in its aesthetic achievements but also, and surely more importantly, in the duration and quality of life of its citizens.
~ Niall Ferguson
Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the same way as you, or the sense of security that you get when you see that your defenders and goalkeeper are more or less where they should be, all that is left is naked fear.
~ Nick Hornby
Man, until yesterday, did not deserve to be called a rational animal. The definition was inexact as long as he invented, according to his preference, religious attitudes and ethical behavior, aesthetic tasks and philosophical meditations. Today, on the other hand, man limits himself to being a rational animal, that is to say: an inventor of practical rules at the service of his animality.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Discipline is not so much a social necessity as an aesthetic obligation.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Precision in philosophy is a false elegance. On the other hand, literary precision is the foundation of aesthetic achievement.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila