Quotes About Aesthetics

Generally people are more impressed with the services and the comfort issues than the design.

Decorating is like math, a game of adding and subtracting.

The design should make the product speak to you.

Everything that I do has a certain mechanical logic to it, and follows my definition of design--which is function with cultural content.

It's one of the curses of designing that when you look at anything, you're constantly thinking, Why? Why - why was it designed like that, and not like this?

Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick has to be ugly.

The beauty of design ought to be totally incidental to the enterprise itself.

I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would.

When typography is on point, words become images.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

There is the refusal of style and the refusal of sentimentalism, there is this desire for clarity.

Art is emotion without desire.

Light is architectural. It is sculptural.

People don't realize that lighting can change the whole look of a place and the feel.

I don't like litter and blight.

Ive been obsessed with beauty since I was a little girl.

I definitely learned to appreciate there is something about looking good. I think it's been sort of lost in the last 50 years, this idea of looking very nice and very put together.

I've written on Apple Macs since the early 80s - they're lovely to use and beautiful to look at.

Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.

Decorative gestures add romance to a life.