Quotes About Aesthetics

A chair is not just a product of decorative art in a space, it is a form and a space in itself

Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

The most important thing in art is taste.

Art is to look at not to criticize.

Art is purposiveness without purpose.

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism.

Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

Donkey Kong Country proves that players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good.

Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.

Art transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art.

Kitsch is deep in its superficiality. Art is superficially deep.

Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?

...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.

If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, A beautiful House.

The purpose of art is delectation.

The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)

Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.