Quotes About Aesthetics

Beauty is lyrical. Ugliness is elegiac.

Art seduces, but does not exploit.

The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.

Even badly drawn a morning glory will be charming

Maybe that is what beauty was, for humans. Accidents, imperfections, placed inside a pretty pattern. Asymmetry. The defiance of mathematics.

Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.

Times New Roman is not a font choice so much as the absence of a font choice, like the blackness of deep space is not a color.

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

Some think that the painting does not so much express the meaning as the meaning impregnates the painting.

She was one of the people who say: "I don't know anything about music really, but I know what I like."

Anthropologie is not butch, phantom or otherwise. It is Disney with a slightly more sophisticated but no less carefully engineered aesthetic. It is to adult women what princesses are to little girls. It is a twirling motion in the form of an international brand.

Deserts look beautiful and green fields look beautiful too. Nature is genius because it knows how to look beautiful in every way.

Enemies of art are the opposite of the Sun; they emit darkness instead of light!

Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras!

The ugliness of the beauty is much horrible than the ugliness of the ugliness.

The average lawn is an interesting beast: people plant it, then douse it with artificial fertilizers and dangerous pesticides to make it grow and to keep it uniform-all so that they can hack and mow what they encouraged to grow. And woe to the small yellow flower that rears its head!

As a general rule, when something becomes useful, it ceases to be beautiful." 2 THÉOPHILE GAUTIER, 1811–1872

Everything moves at light speed, without rest. "It's too loud. Too colorful. The lack of aesthetics. The crudeness. The inanities. The trivia. The inappropriate choices of aspirations and goals.

The painting seems to have a bubbly effect on both of them, aesthetic champagne.

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

Miami is one of these great places that is a really sensual, physically beautiful place.

Theory is relevant to you because it shows you a new, simpler, and more elegant side of computers, which we normally consider to be complicated machines. The best computer designs and applications are conceived with elegance in mind. A theoretical course can heighten your aesthetic sense and help you build more beautiful systems.

But what I do love about this road is how the gaudy becomes grand, how tastelessness is a way of everyday life

Tout est kitsch, si l'on veut. La musique dans son ensemble est kitsch; l'art est kitsch; la littérature elle-même est kitsch. Toute émotion est kitsch, pratiquement par définition; mais toute réflexion aussi, et même dans un sens toute action. La seule chose qui ne soit absolument pas kitsch, c'est le néant.