Quotes About Aesthetics

Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.]

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Art should look like art, trees and flowers and people, not weird shapes and splotches of color all smeared together.

To me, the building [of Museum of Arts and Design]now looks like a lovely jewel box, and the tiled façade reminds me of a heat shield.

Wine pricing is an art - like painting.

We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.

Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and to art, facts are of use only as they lead to phenomena.

There is a great amity between designing and art.

What's becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art.

Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.

Enemies of art are the opposite of the Sun; they emit darkness instead of light!

If you want art, don't mess about with movies. Buy a Picasso.

I realize that I live in the same environment that I did when I was a kid, but with less junk and better art.

Art should never be popular.

Art lies in concealing art.

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.

It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is even prettier than the pictures themselves.

Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.

The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side

Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.

There was an art to the male posterior. That's all there was to it.

The presence of excessive wealth puts an unnatural spin on the appreciation of art.

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable.