Quotes About Aesthetics

When I talk about ideas, I really mean ideas of mise en scène or—if I were to be shocking about it—of framing, or the way shots are put together, which these days are the only ideas whose profundity I wish to recognize.

I don't photograph anything I don't like. I do the flowers, I don't do the weeds.

Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.

I believe in an "emotional architecture." It is very important for human kind that architecture should move by its beauty; if there are many equally valid technical solutions to a problem, the one which offers the user a message of beauty and emotion, that one is architecture.

Don't ask me my opinions on art, because I don't have any. Aesthetic concerns have played a relatively minor role in my life, and I have to smile when a critic talks, for example, of my "palette". I find it impossible to spend hours in galleries analyzing and gesticulating.

No one comes from Rome or Samarkand to see brown flowers.

A couple of hundred dollars for a fishing pole!?¨ You'll hear that all the time if you don't keep your mouth shut in certain company. You can talk about the aesthetics and even mention a cane rod will appreciate in value while a new graphite rod will depreciate, but the best thing to do is turn around and say, ¨$9,000.00 for a car? I only paid $500.00 for mine.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty

How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more Beautiful than Beauty's self.

Fine and delicate taste is the fruit of education and experience.

Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.

Curves are so emotional.

Every ambiguous, false, tearful, emotional exaggeration brings about that typically kitsch attitude which could be defined as "sentimentality."

Kitsch offers instantaneous emotional gratification without intellectual effort, without the requirement of distance, wihtout sublimation.

Equality of Ugliness: If we can't all live in a beautiful place we must all live in an ugly place.

Form, which should be the clean - cut expression of mechanical excellence has become sensuous and organic.

There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.

Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is and the richness with which this is experienced.

Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.

What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.

A lot of what we are doing is getting design out of the way.