Quotes About Aesthetics

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

The swing of art is circular, from form to formalism, from formalism to formlessness, from formlessness to form again.

I think furniture is art. I don't think art is just for your walls - I think everything that someone has made is a piece of art.

I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it.

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

Photography is Art and Art is Photography.

Art is when things appear rounded.

Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.

As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.

I think fashion is art. The dialogue I am concerned with as an artist has more to do with the art and artists that I've been influenced by. I can't help but be affected by all the art that I've seen.

The art isn't there to be purchased - it's there to be enjoyed.

Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.

Despite the fact that I'm not highly skilled in any visual art, aesthetics have always played a strong role in my art, including my first albums.

While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.

There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it.

All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

Religion is in every aspect of art, when it's not baroque.

Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.

I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.

As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.

Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.

The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.