Quotes About Aesthetics

Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.

To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.

Beauty is a sense of harmony.

Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.

I'm a romantic. The impressionists have always been my favorites. I like prettiness - beauty, or what I perceive as beauty.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

Sometimes, homely things are done for the best reasons in the world and thus achieve a beauty of their own.

Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the one with the most attractive exterior will win.

For me photography is not an intellectual process. It is a visual one.... Whether we like it or not, we are involved in a sensual business.

My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

A Race car is more beautiful than the Victory of Samotracia

If you fall asleep on horseback, the horse will stop by the rock. Art is a car. Kitsch is a horse.

Cars are the sculptures of our everyday lives

You can make them so small that they almost disappear, but I think headlights are also part of the face of a car.

A car designer is really a sculptor.

Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.

Art is a car, kitsch is a horse.

Our car looks better than everything I've seen so far.

When I design a car, I want people to look at it and go, 'Wow, that's kind of interesting, ' and do a second take.

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

If you believe in Modern Art History . . . it follows that the best breeding ground for good art is where competing ideas, esthetics, and artists are thickest and where regional niceties are thinnest — New York. . . . The 'regions'. . . . are short on white-hot overpopulation, edifice complexes, and career fights to the death. . . . Should it be gauged against the 'mainstream' . . . or should it be sized up from exactly the opposite point of view?

It was just as Dr. Relf had described it to him, but finer than he could ever have imagined. The thirty-six pictures around the dial were minute and clear, the three hands and the one needle were exquisitely shaped out of some silver-gray metal, and a golden sunburst surrounded the center of the dial.