Quotes About Aesthetics

The foundation of beauty is the body.

Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.

Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.

Beauty is very much in the mind of the beholder.

Whatever is beautiful is also profitable.

I wanted to make a horror film about beauty.

I think there is beauty in everything.

Beauty is all about form; proportions and the relationships between one line and another.

I hate pretty. It's a very empty word. It gives a bad name to beauty.

Anyone can admire creation. Only a barbarian sees the beauty in demolition.

Style is to see beauty in modesty.

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

The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself as it's purpose, which is quite enough.

Beauty is an opinion not a fact.

Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization.

Over fertilized plants may be beautiful but are otherwise useless, like people whose energies are devoted so completely to their appearance that there is no other development.

Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.

The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.

I believe that beauty is a basic service.

The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.

As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.

Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.