Quotes About Aesthetics

Personally, one of the greatest sources of inspiration for my work has been architecture. I've had the chance to see so many exquisite structures, whether they are historical monuments or modern commercial premises.

I do not oppose form, but only form as a goal.

Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

I do believe that organizations can certainly improve lives by specifying better fonts, which of course has an effect on how you read your e-mail.

My origins are I was a massive fan of Johan Cruyff, massive fan of that Ajax team, and my father was. That sort-of led me to look at the aesthetics of football, rather than just the end result.

The building's identity resided in the ornament.

I'm a big fan of matching outfits in general.

The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.

Oftentimes, I feel like, because of my cisnormative look or my aesthetics, that sometimes my talent might get overlooked.

I hate the concept of beauty for the sake of it. It is overrated.

Dragons, for instance, have the right of safe conduct anywhere in Faërie. A reader may not like to read stories about dragons, she may be morally offended or aesthetically uninterested or simply sick of the subject; but at any rate she will not complain that the author has cheated by bringing in a dragon, because dragons belong in fantasy.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

More attractive metaphors create more popular buildings.

I liked the choreography, but I didn't care for the costumes.

Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?

El arte es la ciencia de lo inútil.

Todo eso que está inútilmente añadido a la pura necesidad, es arte.

El arte es tanto más sublime cuanto mayor es su inutilidad.

Una obra de arte jamás es bella, por decreto, objetivamente, para todos.

All my life I have desperately wanted an ugly necklace.

architecture is there, presenting itself to us even when we do not seek it out or even choose to be conscious of it

In practice I think it's easier to see ugliness than to imagine beauty. Most of the people who've made beautiful things seem to have done it by fixing something they thought ugly.

In practice I think it's easier to see ugliness than to imagine beauty.