Quotes About Aesthetics

Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They're not afraid of the beauty, which is nice.

I like women, especially beautiful ones. If they have a good face and figure, I would much prefer to watch them being murdered than an ugly girl or man.

Many, many times I find that whatever is looking good on the screen doesn't always look or feel good on the body. So who do we design for - do we design for the screen, or do we design for women?

Women have no sense of the abstract-a woman admiring the sky is a woman caressing the sky. In a woman's mind beauty is something she needs to touch.

There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.

I think clothes hang beautifully on thin women.

A girl without braidsis like a city without bridges.

Fashion is an art.

The very beginning of European aesthetics started from Florence. Everything here was beauty, money, and creativity, the power of the good money.

The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.

My point is, to emulate dead animals and their parts as decoration is pretty disgusting, and as a design statement, it also fills me with ennui.

What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color.

Zen art makes one aware of the work of art itself.

Tanizaki's subject requires the shadowy style in which he treats it

Good design is good business.

Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.

Beauty can pierce one like a pain.

[Burke] is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

Perfect harmony with its environment, and perfect expression of its own inward nature are what constitute Beauty;

There is a truism in the world of architecture that design creates culture.

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.

Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.

Minimal art went nowhere.