Quotes About Aesthetics

Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.

I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Poetry allies itself with beauty - a supreme union - but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

If I had the power, I would ban leggings.

I hate flowers to death. What are they for? You cannot eat them. They die in a day. They are a complete waste of money.

Art can never exist without Naked beauty display'd.

Beauty is the vocation of the earth.

Jahangir was, after all, an enormously sensitive, curious and intelligent man: observant of the world around him and a keen collector of its curiosities, from Venetian swords and globes to Safavid silks, jade pebbles and even narwhal teeth. A proud inheritor of the Indo-Mughal tradition of aesthetics and knowledge, as well as maintaining the Empire and commissioning great works of art, he took an

Words [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf.

Sprawl is bad aesthetics; it is bad economics. Five acres are being made to do the work of one, and do it very poorly.

Refinement creates beauty everywhere: it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but grossness in the object.

Ideally, a fine painting, like a house, is neither a speculation nor an investment; it is a purchase. Its value consists solely of the pleasure and utility it provides now and in the future. The dividend the painting provides is of the non-financial variety. How

All gardening is landscape painting.

He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.

Nineties style isn't.

Bad design is the default mode, since it takes the least effort to create.

Anything that sounds or looks beautiful would seem to that crowd to be merely pretty, shallow, and therefore deeply suspect—morally suspect, even, I found out. Noise, for them, is deep; beauty shallow.

As he found beauty in the hamburger, he thought hot dogs unattractive—both aesthetically and commercially.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

Beauty in things lies in the mind which contemplates them.