Quotes About Aesthetics

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

I don't think I'm an artist or that I'm doing anything superintellectual. What's important to me is to get a visceral reaction from people, for them to want that coat because they think it's beautiful.

Form ever follows function.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

Form follows function.

les trois Critiques qui correspondent, en première approximation à la théorie de la connaissance, à la morale et à l'esthétique.

And they dare to rule the world! They have made it so ugly. Square houses! Their obsession with straight lines and right angles has ruined the earth! They consider all curves, all subtleties, all softness, all indefinites, female, and they shun them. They have poisoned and denatured everything they touch, and expect us to be grateful.

Everyone looks like they've just stepped out of a Dante Gabriel Rossetti painting that he never got around to finishing because even he knew it was too over the top. It

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

You can die from kitsch. And we're close to it.

White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.

You can do a good ad without good typography, but you can't do a great ad without good typography.

Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

You do design because you feel it inside; you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment.

Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written.

There is no limit to beauty, no saturation point in design, no end to the material.

Graphic Design is the communication of information in an appropriate visual manner.

Design is not art. Design is utilitarian, art is not.

Design is a dreadful form of expression

Simplicity, wit, and good typography.

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

As the saying goes, type is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters.