Quotes About Aesthetics

He lived it 100 percent. He had the watch. He had the wardrobe. He drove the Mercedes. He lived the lifestyle of a Horsemen, and it was one of those things that you knew when Tully Blanchard came through the curtain, you were looking at a professional. And he believed that his crap didn't stink.

I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000...' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by.

I thought: 'It would be great to create a series of clothes that looked like that tree.' Clothes that gave you the green of the leaf and the warm brown of the underside of that leaf and the vanilla colored blossom.

I have a thing for clean lines and beautiful form that I attribute to my four years in Tokyo and Kyoto. I also appreciate traditional architecture and a warm palette that I think my Midwest upbringing has something to do with.

My design preference tends towards warmth, comfort, and minimalism.

The secret of ugliness consists of not irregularity, but in being uninteresting

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

It's ugly, but is it art?

Wittgenstein dislikes all ornamentation that is not part of the construction, and never find anything simple enough.

Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will out sell the other.

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit.

One of my problems with a lot of things I watch is that everybody's too pretty, and it takes me out of the film because I'm thinking that all these people look like I've seen them in a cafe in Los Angeles.

Photographing a cake can be art.

I loved 'Carol.' I thought it was a beautiful film.

I do love sparse cartooning.

I just like beautiful women. They don't have to be a celebrity, though... I mean, if they're beautiful, they're beautiful.

Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair.

You can use cheap technology to get a great look.

As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.

I hate the way chorus boxes sound.

I like the aesthetics of the Church.

I'm usually known for films that look beautiful and attractive, probably because I am a cinematographer too.

You can't have a single design for all cities. The look and feel of the streetlights are very important.