Quotes About Aesthetics

With increasing passion she loved beauty, for beauty, she told herself, and only beauty, was pure and good and worthy of her love.

Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.

Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Fashion is not art. The aims of fashion and art are different and there is no need to compare them.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.

The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

Creating something that is universally beautiful. That is art.

The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.

We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.

Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.

Fill a space in a beautiful way.

What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.

Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

Art has no purpose. It exists for its own sake.

I have never seen a beautiful painting of a beautiful woman. But you can take an ugly woman and make a beautiful painting of her. It is the painting itself that should be beautiful.