Quotes About Aesthetics

Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?

The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.

Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.

Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.

Small price to pay for beauty.

Beauty is a social necessity.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

Beauty and elegance are a right, not a surplus... . We must demand, at least, intention.

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best.

Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.

To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.

Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many.

Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.

Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.

'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.

Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time.