Quotes About Aesthetics

Even a colour-sense is more important, in the development of the individual, than a sense of right and wrong. Aesthetics, in fact, are to Ethics in the sphere of conscious civilisation, what, in the sphere of the external world, sexual is to natural selection. Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sexual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

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

The workmanship was better than the subject matter.

Male beauty's better for neglect.

All right, get out a bowl," I told her. "It has to be a beautiful bowl." "Why?" "Because then the whole experience will be more pleasurable. Pick one you like.

You must appreciate beauty for it to endure.

Good taste is not something you can be taught. It's not something you obtain in a store or go to college to learn.

They say that when you're really in love, the world becomes gossamer and gorgeous, but in my experience the world gets grimy, and the love object is in stark relief from the surroundings. This is love, a pretty thing on an ugly street.

Taste is a mystery.

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Allo stesso tempo in giapponese ci sono due parole, wabi e sabi, che messe insieme significano bellezza effimera e fluttuante; estetica della decadenza, dei dettagli asimmetrici e dei colori naturali; gusto per il non finito, il transeunte, l'imperfetto. Per spiegare cosa significano queste quattro sillabe giapponesi nelle nostre lingue bisogna scrivere dei mini trattati.

art can never exist without naked beauty displayed

The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

She was big on patination. That was how quality wore in, she said, as opposed to out. Distressing, on the other hand, was the faking of patination, and was actually a way of concealing a lack of quality.

There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.

Art Nouveau was coil-envy.

It's not Art. And Art is not Design.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. — PICASSO

I always try to treat the book itself as the artwork. I don't want you to stop while you're reading one of my books and say, 'Oh! What a gorgeous illustration!' I want you to stop at the end of the book and say, 'This is a good book.

Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity.

Humans are religious because they hope for superhuman powers to help them realize human goods and avoid bads, especially to grant them blessings, prevent misfortunes, and aid them in crises; and because they wish to enjoy the various forms of identity, community, meaning, expression, aesthetics, ecstasy, control, and legitimacy that practicing religions offer.

For me the visual is just as important as the music.