Quotes About Aesthetics

Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.

Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.

Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?

It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.

There are only two types of music.good and bad.

Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false

Whenever there's a change with Jazz & its aesthetics, it's almost always reflected with a change in the culture.

Often people try and just consider music as music, in a musical context. People seem to forget that music is not just audio material - it's also the artwork, the packaging it comes in.

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Deserts look beautiful and green fields look beautiful too. Nature is genius because it knows how to look beautiful in every way.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.

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

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.