Quotes About Aesthetics

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.

I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

My definition of beauty is something between extremely ugly and extremely fantastic.

Beauty is in the behind of the beholder!

I find beauty in melancholy.

Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the consideration of beauty, because it is not color but the structure that constitutes its essence.

I prefer ugliness to beauty, because ugliness endures.

Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty.

Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.

Without emotion there is no beauty

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.

I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

Let's just say beauty inspires me. But I like all beauty - I think it really comes from the inside out.

Beauty is a delightful prejudice.

When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.

Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.

Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.

Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.

Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle…intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years.

Beauty is the result of clarity and system and not of optical illusion.