Quotes About Aesthetics

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

There's always been an ongoing struggle between commerce and art.

When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.

If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.

Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.

Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it's jut a matter of taste.

Art should be pretentious. The place to be sincere is in one's relationships.

My work has always tried to unite the True with the Beautiful and when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the Beautiful.

Art should be seen with the heart, not with the eyes, for its beauty is in the energy it radiates.

The Beautiful is always strange.

Anything that is not necessary to the painting damages it." Henri Matisse

The Fine Arts are five in number: Painting, Music, Poetry, Sculpture, and Architecture--whereof the principle branch is Confectionery.

Seeing beautiful art is like feeling kisses from angels all over your face.

There's a fine line between minimalism and not trying very hard.

Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour

I love the smell of pastels...that breaths life into my soul.

Photography is not a lens but eye, not a business but art

I wonder whether Art has a higher function than to make me feel appreciate and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

Style like the human body is specially beautiful when the veins are not prominent and the bones cannot be counted.

Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

Art for art's sake.

I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

Gardening always has been an art, essentially.