Quotes About Aesthetics

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art.

Clutter is not a property of information. Clutter is a failure of design.

To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.

Beauty is where you find it.

I think beauty neither obscures truth nor reveals it. Likewise, it leads neither toward justice nor away from it.

It will not say, 'Isn't X beautiful?' Such demands are murderous to beauty.

I'm not a fetishist, but I love feet. When I see feet, it's simply beautiful.

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

No hay menos belleza en una exacta ecuación q en una frase precisa. Pero cada ciencia tiene su propio lenguaje estético

I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.

My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see

Design is a funny word. Some people think Design means how it looks. But, of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works. —Steve Jobs

Design means how something works, not how it looks – the design should evolve from the function. —James Dyson

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is What do you like? Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

It does not much matter that an individual loses two or three hundred pounds in buying a bad picture, but it is to be regretted that a nation should lose two or three hundred thousand in raising a ridiculous building.

you never will love art well, till you love what she mirrors better

Our objective, let it always be remembered, is not the attainment of architectural data, but the formation of taste.

The Embassy Suites in Des Moines was of the architectural style known as 20th Century Hotel Unremarkable, a large beige building apparently designed not to piss anybody off, except maybe the local aesthetes.

The diagnostics and modifications screens. Ugly and utilitarian, just like they have been since the very beginnings of visual user interface. They were beautiful.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

Mind, I congratulate you. You jumped me to sex, translated it to aesthetics, and ended with sour grapes. How dishonest can I be? And all because I don't want to go to work. I'll work my head off to avoid work. Come, mind. This time you don't get away with it - back to the desk.