Quotes About Aesthetics

Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

Behind every attractive room there should be a very good reason.

Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Too much good taste can be boring

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you're trained in design, it won't look very good and it won't communicate very well.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.

Everything is permissible as long as it's done in good taste.

Good taste is always bad.

Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

Don't confuse good taste with the absence of taste.

Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens.

Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and takes captive.

I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art.

Looking at somebody looking good is so... boring.

Brad Pitt is so good-looking there's a lightbulb inside of him shooting good-looking-ness in all directions.

We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.

No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.