Quotes About Aesthetics

I simply love that tinge of Botticellian pink, that raw rose about the lips, those wet, matted eyelashes…

El sentido moral de los mortales es el precio que debemos pagar por nuestro sentido mortal de la belleza.57

Para mí, una obra e ficción sólo existe en la medida en que me proporciona lo que llamaré lisa y llanamente placer estético, es decir, la sensación de que es algo, en algún lugar, relacionado con otros estados de ser en que el arte (curiosidad, ternura, bondad, éxtasis) es la norma.

Anything that is not necessary to the painting damages it. Henri Matisse

Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction.

Style, after all, is a kind of humor, Something truly beneath contempt...

It is said that analyzing pleasure, or beauty, destroys it.

It is said that analyzing pleasure, or beauty, destroys it. That is the intention of this article.

An image resists explanation. You relate to it or you do not. You cannot disagree with an image. Through identification with an image you comprehend a totality, rather than learn particular facts.

Here, people hold bags not meant to carry, but to be pretty.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportions.

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

Perfumes, colors and sounds echo one another.

What do I care that you are good?Be beautiful! and be sad!

The beautiful is always bizarre.

An architect should never rationalize a change in purely aesthetic terms, you know that. He should give the client a pragmatic reason for doing it." Lucien

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

The details are not the details. They make the design.

The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.

The environment was full of birds and insects, rodents and small reptiles - decorative in appearance, but also satisfying a more abstract aesthetic: softening the harsh radial symmetry of the lone observer; anchoring the simulation by perceiving it from a multitude of view-points. Ontological guy lines.

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but its creation is in the mind and hand of the artist.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.