Quotes About Aesthetics

An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.

The Golden Rectangle is the only rectangle with the property that cutting a square from it produces a similar rectangle.

There is a Japanese word for things made more beautiful by use, that bear the evidence of their own making, or the individuating marks of time's passage: a kind of beauty not immune to time but embedded in it.

In Python, practicality often beats aesthetics.

Americans sense that something is wrong with the places where we live and work and go about our daily business," wrote social critic James Howard Kunstler in 1996. "We drive up and down the gruesome, tragic suburban boulevards of commerce, and we're overwhelmed at the fantastic, awesome, stupefying ugliness of absolutely everything in sight… as though the whole thing had been designed by some diabolical force bent on making human beings miserable.

The Simpsons are ugly-looking, and they should be. That's what works. That's one of the things that's funny.

Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books.

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am not at all sure that neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

There are only two things in life,' Bergé said. 'Love and beauty.

Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.

It looked very unrealistic and inaccurate, which was exactly what I liked.

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.

Reflexes and instincts are not pretty. It is their decoration that initiates art.

In general, we hang things—paintings, posters, mirrors—at the height where we best appreciate them. A painting is always slightly higher than the direct approach. We hang mirrors in such a way that we take in our faces, hair, neck and shoulders.

Just as he loved sweet scents and fragrance in general, so also he was exceedingly sensitive to the slightest unpleasantness of odour, especially in the breath, in himself and in others.

It had a woman's feel for colour and space. Men tended to put things in the first place available and just leave them there. Women thought a room out, knew how a room would look at its best. Women, Kate had observed, took time with details. Small details that could make a room like this.

A charismatic brand includes a dedication to aesthetics. Why? Because it's the language of feeling, and in a society that's information-rich and time-poor, people value feeling more than information.

As to "Aesthetic Considerations," Ansel counseled, "A photograph that is merely a superficial record of the subject fails as an aesthetic expression of that subject. The expression must be an emotional amplification, and this emotional amplification relates to point of view, organization, revelation of substance through textures, tonal relations, and the perfection of the technical expression of all these elements."54

Group f.64 believed that photographic beauty was defined by beautiful prints produced by purely photographic means. The subjects need not be beautiful. What might appear ugly or commonplace could have value through the respectful understanding and expression of the photographer.

Beauty is beauty due to the cruelty of selection.

The ugly can achieve an absoluteness beyond the reach of beauty.