Quotes About Aesthetics

How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashion's aesthetic should enhance and beautify the human form, not destroy it.

What has pleased and continues to please, is likely to please again; hence are derived the rules of art, and on this immovable foundation they must ever stand.

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

I never buy a piece of art. I don't see the point in buying something because I know my eyes will get bored of it eventually.

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.

Art has got nothing to do with taste.

Fashion should go back to what it should be: closer to art, not totally commercial but have some artistic value at its core.

It is terrifying to think of what a commodity art has become.

I shall praise those faces which seem to project out of the picture as though they were sculptured, and I shall censure those faces in which I see no art but that of outline.

Colour is the ultimate in art. It is still and will always remain a mystery to us, we can only apprehend it intuitively in flowers.

One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.

Art is nothing without form.

One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less.

Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system.

It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.

He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.

The way I look is part of it. It sounds affected but I do see myself as a piece of living art.

Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole.

Boulez, who is everything I don't want art to be... Boulez, who once said in an essay that he is not interested in how a piece sounds, only how it is made.

The destruction of images, the first signs of which reach back to the 1920s, eliminated a lot of kitsch and unworthy art, but ultimately it left behind a void.

I believe in art that conceals art.

Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)