Quotes About Aesthetics

Während die Abendländer den Schmutz radikal aufzudecken und zu entfernen trachten, konservieren ihn die Ostasiaten sorgfältig und ästhetisieren ihn, so wie er ist - könnte man, wenn man wollte, beschönigend sagen; aber wie auch immer, es ist unser Schicksal, dass wir nun einmal Dinge mit Spuren von Menschenhänden, Lampenruß, Wind und Regen lieben oder auch daran erinnernde Farbtönungen und Lichtwirkungen.

Such is our way of thinking - we find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.

It has been said of Japanese food that it is a cuisine to be looked at rather than eaten. I would go further and say that it is to be meditated upon, a kind of silent music evoked by the combination of lacquerware and the light of a candle flickering in the dark.

Por otro lado, los criminales producen, según la circunstancia, impresiones morales o trágicas, cultivando así el sentido estético del pueblo. De esta manera, los criminales ofrecen tanto diversiones como actividades artísticas en una sociedad cada vez más monótona.

Art is purposiveness without purpose.

Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed.

It was impossible to instruct on the subject of beauty, of course. It simply was. You were either moved by it or you weren't.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts

Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

Ikebana is meant to mimic life in the way it develops; it shouldn't look like it's under the control of man.

The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England is so vile.

My aesthetic is about simplicity, elegance, and comfort, whether that is interpreted in a man's suit or a track suit.

I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.

Nothing comes cheap, though the educated eye will always spot very nice things for the least money.

Talking about money is garish. It's tacky.

Make it just like a Mac.

You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.

Where there is money there is no art.

What strikes me about Toronto is that Toronto's great misfortune was to have too much money in the late 70s and early 80s, and consequently, it built in the style of those periods, which is hideous.

Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them

You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.