Quotes About Aesthetics

Comic Sans — ruining PowerPoint presentations since 1994.

Arial — Helvetica's weird, ugly cousin.

Typography is what communication looks like. There is beauty in the language and beauty in the way it is presented.

Type and typography—what you do and how you do it—are both science and art.

Simple shapes are inhuman. They fail to resonate with the way nature organizes itself or with the way human perception sees the world.

No matter how pretty or designer the clothes are, I don't like to wear anything that is uncomfortable.

The word 'superficial' comes with such negative connotations, suggesting that whatever it is applied to has no value. But the emotional pull of beauty for its own sake cannot be underestimated.

I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.

Behrens had a great sense of the great form. that was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him.

I have never understood models. I find it really hard to find beauty in that or to discover beauty because the beauty was so obvious.

To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.

Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future.

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

Beauty is where the beheld butterfly disappears from sight.

Our society can no longer tolerate ugliness. You see that in cars, sofas and women. [But] ugliness also has a right to exist.

My obsession is to make women beautiful. When you create with that in mind, things can't go out of fashion.

Remember how many beautiful women there were in the 1950s and 1960s, without any surgery? And now, thanks to degeneration, we have this.

I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if you don't give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself.

You have to know how to use your hair spray.

There are definitely designers that I love, people I love to work with. And who they are as people matters. Are they good people? Do they treat their staff well? Do they treat my staff well? Are they young? Can I give them a boost? But when all of that is equal... is it cute?

Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful.

The eyes of men love to pluck the blossoms from the faded flowers they turn away.

Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.

All too much of the man-made is ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos.