Quotes About Aesthetics

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.

Attractive things work better When you wash and wax a car, it drives better, doesn't it? Or at least feels like it does.

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things

It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is very ill-paid work.

I'm not giving up on my work. I'm still trying to challenge people's aesthetics and myself.

All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements.

A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created.

Steve Jobs was the greatest manufacturer of consumer products of his age. His marketing vision put him on par with Henry Ford, and his grasp of the aesthetic component to industrial design far surpassed Ford's.

I just take inspiration from anything that visually stimulates me.

White stockings I do not like. Why does anyone except a schoolgirl want to wear them? Nothing is more flattering to the legs than flesh color.

I love the '60s and sort of wish all design had stopped in 1967. That would be my dream. They were really just nailing it - everyone looked great - but then it started getting a bit slippery after that.

Practical storage pieces are great if you have a basement or a garage. But when you actually live with them day in and day out, they should be beautiful to look at.

It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.

With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you can see every strand.

Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

Our eyes and brains pretty consistently like some human forms better than others. Shown photos of strangers, even babies look longer at the faces adults rank the best-looking.

Clothes should just be like a beautiful setting for a jewel: They should offset you.

I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.

There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

I just looked like there was only one thing I could do: be in a band. It looked like I was already successful, basically. Which is what I wanted to do when I was 16. I just felt like if you did that, aesthetically you would just draw people who were doing the same thing.

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.