Quotes About Aesthetics

Seldom have I found in the ritual music of the Catholic church a quality so convincing that there is no need to mourn the past. Without going into a complicated maze of aesthetics, we can define quality as a certain something which is not inferior to what the external world offers, such as to render every Christian proud of his own music.

I parked in front of the Field Museum under a NO PARKING sign. There were a couple of actual spots I could have used, but the drive was even closer. Besides, I found it aesthetically satisfying to defy municipal code.

Nada há mais feio que dar pernas longuíssimas a ideias brevíssimas.

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.

My work is not about 'form follows function, ' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'

Beauty in things lies in the mind which contemplates them.

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

Beauty comes as much from the mind as from the eye.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

As muito feias que me perdoem Mas beleza é fundamental.

It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings

Firmitas, utilitas, venustas.

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

Conclusion : l'idéal esthétique est hédoniste et susceptible de progrès. L'idéal moral est doloriste et n'est pas objet d'apprentissage.

Saavik gazed calmly at the viewscreen. She was aesthetically elegant in the spare, understated, esoterically powerful manner of a Japanese brush-painting.

I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too-well-tended lawn.

Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas a moral and aesthetic nightmare whether or not the days are prosperous?

There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.

Right and wrong do not exist in graphic design. There is only effective and non-effective communication.

Typography is what communication looks like.There is beauty in the language and beauty in the way it is presented.

The best computer scientists are...technologists who crave beauty.