Quotes About Aesthetics

Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.

Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up in the phrase: To create a harmony.

By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.

Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.

A beautiful face is a mute recommendation.

Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.

Beauty can be seen in all things.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.

My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see

You can only possess beauty through understanding it.

An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object.

Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.

Open your mind to every form of beauty

The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda.

Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.

You do not need to know anything about a plant to know that it is beautiful.

People ridiculously overvalue aesthetics and beauty when evaluating products. It's one of the reasons iPods, and, for that matter, Keanu Reeves, are so successful.

Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.