Quotes About Aesthetics

An object should elicit desire, and often it happens not because people need it but because they love it.

Controlling the design of an everyday object is very satisfying.

I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it.

In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.

We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.

I have an obsession with describing hair. I don't know why - hair is just really pretty.

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

I do not condemn the cult of pleasure; I lament the general vulgarity.

Junk is in the eyes of the beholder. Some look, but others see.

el arte que es simplemente malo ni siquiera es capaz de provocarnos repugnancia.

Petersburg did not grow up like other towns. Neither commerce nor geopolitics can account for its development. Rather it was built as a work of art.

All art is quite useless.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Because beauty has power to call forth a grief that is beyond the reach of other tragedies. The loss of a great beauty can bring an entire nation to its knees. Nothing else can do that.

What runs so contrary to received wisdom is that it really is the male who is the aesthete while the woman is drawn to abstractions.