Quotes About Aesthetics

Why should beauty be suspect?

Know that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful.

I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.

How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.

If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch.

The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection.

But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following.

Beauty is our business.

Beauty is the flower of virtue.

Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?

The throat chakra is the center that is aesthetic. It gives an appreciation of beauty.

Beauty is a natural superiority.

Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.

What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.

Affect not to despise beauty: no one is freed from its dominion; But regard it not a pearl of price--it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds.

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line.

There are many kinds of beauty as people who possess it.

The ugly can achieve an absoluteness beyond the reach of beauty.

I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas.

Art is apotheosis; Often, the complaint of beauty.

Elegance and beauty have been banished.

The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.

...beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation.