Quotes About Aesthetic

I kind of look like I work in a Brooklyn coffee shop.

One advantage of arguing that causality is aesthetic is that it allows us to consider what we call consciousness alongside what we call things.

I want to create a world with objects and surroundings that are human, more romantic, and less sterile.

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.

The blue-collar culture, it's not really a buttoned-up aesthetic. It's a heavy-labor thing because you're, like, sweating.

I swear to God, you would think based on my aesthetic and my image and stuff I like to be glammed up. My favorite is sweats on, no nails.

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. Though different traditions may emphasize different aspects, it is only the interplay of these antithetic forces and the struggle for their synthesis that constitute the life, usefulness, and supreme value of mathematical science.

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.

What constitutes a fit between artist and mentor? It is not necessarily style, or even sensibility, though sensibility gets closer to describing it. Aesthetic might be the best. If a shared aesthetic exists, the mentor can come to view the mentee as another of his projects: a shaping and sculpting, and a carrying forward of the mentor's aesthetic.

It was beautiful in a harsh I'm-going-to-gut-you-like-a-fish kind of way.

That's a fine-looking cat.

When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.

Appearance is a type of power.

You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!

Anything that's not functional is merely decorative.

Taste ... is a matter of taste (Tad Allagash)

And so art is everywhere, since artifice is at the very heart of reality. And so art is dead, not only because its critical transcendence is gone, but because reality itself, entirely impregnated by an aesthetic which is inseparable from its own structure, has been confused with its own image. Reality no longer has the time to take on the appearance of reality. It no longer even surpasses fiction: it captures every dream even before it takes on the appearance of a dream.

I was already refusing to have taste. I forbade myself to have it. I knew that the cultivation of it would have not refined me but softened me.

My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof.

I soon noticed that there was nothing haphazard about her clothing; it was all in keeping with a particular style that I might call "Little Lord Fauntleroy meets French salon hostess.

Of Brother John he knew no particular evil, but the redness of his hair, the exuberance of his health and high spirits, the very way he put live blood back into old martyrdoms with his extravagant gusto in the reading, were all offensive in themselves, and jarred on the prior's aesthetic sensibilities.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.

The degeneracy of mankind is distinguished from its uprise by the dominance of chill abstractions, divorced from aesthetic content.