Quotes About Aesthetics

Lo que primero llamaba la atención era la ausencia total de muebles, lo cual era posible gracias a la utilización sistemática de pequeñas diferencias de nivel a la altura del suelo. De este modo, las zonas destinadas a dormitorios eran excavaciones rectangulares de cuarenta centímetros de profundidad: uno bajaba a la caba en vez de subirte a ella. Las bañeras eran igualmente grandes pilas redondas cuyo reborde estaba situado a ras de suelo.

nostalgia has nothing to do with aesthetics, it's not even connected to happy memories. We feel nostalgia for a place simply because we've lived there; whether we lived well or badly scarcely matters.

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself. —JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID

After the day's active life, we spend at least a few hours quietly to develop our aesthetic, theoretical, and spiritual understanding of the way of life. By either reading, writing, performing, or thinking and meditating, we should continuously refine our personality and deepen our understanding of art, literature, science, philosophy, religion, and various other arts.

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

Es una desgracia esto de tener que servirse uno de las cosas —pensó Augusto—; tener que usarlas, el use estropea y hasta destruye toda belleza. La función más noble de los objetos es la de ser contemplados. ¡Qué bella es una naranja antes de comida!

Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.

Beauty and the Beast seemed like it all was really brown. The whole thing was just so brown and orange and yellow, like Burger King or something. I don't think I would have liked Beauty and the Beast at any age.

Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass!The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass! It is the second tear that makes kitsch kitsch.

Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence.

She was more cute than pretty, more pretty than beautiful.

Never underestimate the value of gorgeous when it comes to keeping a place clean. Beauty motivates when nothing else will. That doesn't mean you have to do a complete renovation. It is just a reminder that attractive spaces are more likely to stay clean than unattractive ones.

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

La Beauté c'est la Mort.

I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

En arquitectura, el que compta és la poesia de l'espai [...].

Design is not only about imagining an exterior form. It is even more centrally about the internal spatial experience that gives rise to form.

The spirit in man has been created in accordance with the image of beauty, so that whenever it either hears or sees anything beautiful, it may have a propensity towards it, and seek for communion with it.

Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.

It is too simple to say that if you avoid kitsch you avoid empire but it is a good start. It is more accurate to say that while kitsch does not necessarily imply empire it is one of its accompaniments.

The wind of inevitability draws memories in the sand and falls asleep with new waves of stories. And the way he does it is the whole art of the philosophy of awareness. The sandy aesthetics that our mind draws is washed away by oblivion. And this shows that the mind has no values, because everything undergoes oblivion disappears into oblivion and everything is immersed in newness.

Too much beauty can be hard to bear.

It was furnished neither in good taste nor in bad taste, but simply with no attempt at taste at all...

Madame de Pompadour excelled at an art which the majority of human beings thoroughly despise because it is unprofitable and ephemeral: the art of living.