Quotes About Aesthetics

The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Art is the daughter of pleasure.

Surprise is key in all art.

The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.

I try to conceal art with art.

Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy.

Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon.

Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.

Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but beautiful as art.

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

Art does not copy nature - it suggests it.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.

Why do humans make art? It's how we evolved.

Ive come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.