Quotes About Aesthetics

A woman's beauty lies, not in any exaggeration of the specialized zones, nor in any general harmony that could be worked out by means of the sectio aurea or a similar aesthetic superstition; but in the arabesque of the spine. The curve by which the back modulates into the buttocks. It is here that grace sits and rides a woman's body.

It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own -even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

The fact is that they probably regarded aesthetic merits as material objects which an open eye could not help perceiving, without one's needing to ripen equivalents of them slowly in one's own heart.

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

Often what we call "play" is competitive or compulsive, because the aesthetic dimension of true play, its holy uselessness, goes against our grain.

As always, aesthetics and ethics dance a tango in dramas.

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.

Form follows finances instead of function.

Every plant has its fitness and must be placed in its proper surroundings so as to bring out its full beauty. Therein lies the art of landscaping.

I want order and taste. A well displayed meal is enhanced one hundred per cent in my eyes.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.

I can't go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.

Good restaurant design is about achieving equilibrium between the food, service, and design - in effect, telling a complete story.

Prepare your food attractively and serve it nicely.

Food that's beautiful to look at seems to taste better than food that isn't.

It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.

Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which by now has ceased to be funny.

The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer.

Ugliness is superior to beauty because it lasts longer.

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.

Art never expresses anything but itself.