Quotes About Aesthetics

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly a thousand

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

Beauty without expression tires.

Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.

Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.

Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful.

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, get it out with Optrex.

The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.

A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data.

... there can be no real beauty without neatness and order.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

I don't think photography has anything remotely to do with the brain. It has to do with eye appeal.

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

Beauty has no relation to price, rarity, or age.

It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.

I have always striven to fix beauty in wood, stone, glass or pottery, in oil or watercolor by using whatever seemed fittest for the expression of beauty, that has been my creed.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

It should be judged primarily on grace, elegance and beauty rather than simply on mechanic tumbling.

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

A physical law must possess mathematical beauty.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.