Quotes About Aesthetics

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable laws of Nature.

The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works.

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.

Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

Art brings out the grand lines of nature.

Beauty is nature's way of acting at a distance.

To live well is to live in harmony with ourselves, others and nature, and that idea of harmony is, of course, an aesthetic one.

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.

Beauty- it was a glorious gift of nature.

Nature is fun to study, but style is everything.

Sometimes nature seems more beautiful than strictly necessary.

Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above nature.

One of the treasures of nature is beauty; this, too, should be preserved.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

Beauty is a female thing. That's why nature is so stunning.

Meditation, education and beauty are the three transforming powers that can change individual and the whole world.

Girls are obsessed with beauty. They make this world beautiful, by being beautiful.

The need for beauty and the [artistic] creation which embodies it is inseparable from man, and without it man would possibly not want to live in the world.