Quotes About Aesthetics

There are some women that don't do it for some men. That's why they turn out so many models.

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator.

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

Nothing is really beautiful unless it is useless; everything useful is ugly, for it expresses a need, and the needs of man are ignoble and disgusting, like his poor weak nature. The most useful place in a house is the lavatory.

I belong to those for whom the superfluous is necessary.

La belleza no es una idea absoluta y solo puede apreciarse por contraste.

No existe nada realmente hermoso si no es lo que no puede servir para nada. Todo lo que es útil es feo, porque es la expresión de alguna necesidad y las del hombre son ruines y desagradables, igual que su pobre y enfermiza naturaleza. El rincón más útil de una casa son las letrinas.

Even the aesthetic activities of political opposites are one in their enthusiastic obedience to the rhythm of the iron system.

A landscape becomes uglier when an admirer disrupts it with the words 'how beautiful'.

The subjectivist approach to art simply fails to understand that the subjective experience of art in itself is meaningless, and that in order to grasp the importance of art one has to zero in on the artistic object rather than on the fun of the art lover.

A taste for kitsch among the well-to-do is a sign of spiritual impoverishment; but among the poor, it represents a striving for beauty, an aspiration without the likelihood of fulfilment.

Nothing is truly beautiful unless it cannot be used for anything; everything that is useful is ugly because it is the expression of some need, and those of man are ignoble and disgusting, like his poor and infirm nature.

People define themselves aesthetically at a very young age.

You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.

I can look a whole day with delight upon a handsome picture, though it be but of an horse.

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.

I feel like everything needs to be stylised; that's always been my mindset.

I'm actually a sci-fi nerd on the inside; I just happen to be symmetrically put together on the outside.

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.

Every new car, you open the door, and you look at all those internal mellifluous swoopy bits, and they have no meaning.

There was always Helmut Newton coffee table books around when I was growing up.

I think I always knew aesthetically what excited me the most, and I think I was always looking for that aesthetic in other people and it didn't really happen. I decided to take it upon myself to be the change I wanted to see in nightlife.

There's no doubt: The iPad is a beautiful, extremely well-designed device.