Quotes About Aesthetics

If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.

Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction.

We all have a weakness for beauty.

And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you?

For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

Beauty,--the fading rainbow's pride.

Gold lends a touch of beauty even to the ugly.

The world's crazy, when it comes to beauty.

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly.

Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.

There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind

Culture opens the sense of beauty.

A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.

Beauty alters the grain of reality.

Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend.

Communities should be planned with an eye to the effect on the human spirit of being continually surrounded by a maximum of beauty.

Beauty has never been absolute and immutable but has taken on different aspects depending on the historical period and the country

Those who create beauty are also they who possess it.

I don't understand beauty.

It's a shame that physical beauty often has such a negative effect on its occupant.

Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in.

People give up the earth for beauty.

Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.