Quotes About Aesthetics

Appreciate the aesthetic and creativity of the nature and be grateful for being part of it.

What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature.

It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood.

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

Fine art is in the last consequence, philosophy expressed visually.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.

The morality of art is in its very beauty.

Be an artist, see the beauty not only with your eyes but also with your heart.

The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.

Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe.

I don't want to turn any of this into poetry / but / you're so beautiful / flowers turn their heads to smell you

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.

I hate French poetry. What measured glitter!