Quotes About Aesthetics

I think in terms of the work were doing now a lot of the UI cleanup... I see it getting much prettier.

Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.

Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.

A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books.

If I did want to go back to school, I'd want to go to Loyola Marymount University over in, I believe, Morina, or Pepperdine. Those are just beautiful campuses. I know that's probably not the right reason to go school. The campuses are just stunning.

When you buy things that are expensive, like a sofa or something that really feels like an investment, you need to keep it as plain as possible, as simple as possible. Make sure that it's a clean design that will work with whatever style you want it to.

Climbing is more of an art than a sport. It's the aesthetics of a mountain that compels me. The line of a route, the style of ascent. It is creative.

I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.

The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.

Yes, but more than being a designer, I'm more of a stylist, because I don't sew and I don't sketch, but I'm good at putting things together, choosing things that are chic and glossing over the aesthetics of things.

Glamour is not something you possess but something you perceive, not something you have but something you feel. It is a subjective response to a stimulus.

We can't put up a movie that looks beautiful but doesn't have substance.

I feel like math and writing are the same thing. You're putting together a lot of complex things to satisfy different requirements. It's got to be aesthetically pleasing; it's got to have subtext; it's got to convey information.

Visually, I love the setting of suburbia.

Beauty is in the eye of it's beholder.

Schönheit haftet nicht den Dingen an, sondern liegt im Helldunkel, im Schattenspiel, das sich zwischen den Dingen entfaltet, sagt der Dichter Tanizaki Junichiro. Und ich denke, es ist tatsächlich so, dass die Dinge sich für uns jeweils anders abschatten. Erst in unserem Blick, der immer auch aus einer bestimmten Perspektive, einer Geneigtheit kommt, werden sie schön.

In no other city can one so cheerfully enjoy the accidents of bad art.

viral aesthetics and guerrilla marketing

Style of the future is the convergence of function and fashion.

To the degree it is efficient, a spaceship is elegant and beautiful.

The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.