Quotes About Aesthetics

The whole idea of wearing clothes is not to look ridiculous.

Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.

The thing I love about car design is that it's sculpture everybody appreciates, everybody has access to.

I think, aesthetically, I've always been drawn to packaging and products, combs and blowdryers, all that.

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it's great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it.

I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.

I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.

A painting has to be beautiful. Even in its grotesqueness.

A painting doesn't have to have a real usability other than you looking at it. Obviously, a car, an engine, or battery has to fit people's needs.

I like to think of my work and the way people approach it in the same way people approach a Lichtenstein painting. You can write a one-hundred-page dissertation about why he used comics. Or it could be like, 'This is cute!'

I love beautiful things. I'm not into art so much, like paintings.

Gray goes with gold. Gray goes with all colors. I've done gray-and-red paintings, and gray and orange go so well together. It takes a long time to make gray because gray has a little bit of color in it.

I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful.

Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.

The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.

Too many architects are just trying to make all of their buildings look like a brand, and that may be good for business, but that is terrible for the cities because they lose character. If I go to Paris, I go to see the beauty of Paris and the coherence of Paris.

You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.

Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is.

There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will.

Lay down a map of the land; over that, set a map of political change; over that, a map of the Net, especially the counter-Net with its emphasis on clandestine information-flow and logistics and finally, over all, the 1:1 map of the creative imagination, aesthetics, values. The resultant grid comes to life, animated by unexpected eddies and surges of energy, coagulations of light, secret tunnels, surprises.

The beautiful in its pure form can safely be left to the idealists, while the half-beautiful and the ugly occupy empiricists.

You can't see why anyone wouldn't want to wallow in the sheer beauty of language .

She was attractive, but so was everyone in this kind of light; the longer the wavelength, the softer the focus. There's a reason fuckcubbies don't come with fluorescent lights.