Quotes About Aesthetics

Why does God call people to be artists? Because he is an Artist, and we are made in his image. When we first meet the God of the Bible, he is busy making things and calling them good. Thus it is only natural for him to take some of the people that he has made, call them to be artists, and hold them to an aesthetic standard.

Goodness is both an ethical and an esthetic standard.

ARCHITECTURE, n The art of how to waste space.

Occam's Razor' (so-called because the principle encourages one to cut out unnecessary complications from theory) is ultimately aesthetic: why postulate two things when one will do? Or as Occam is said to have put it, 'It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer'.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

ne suffit pas de constituer comme beau ce qu'exclut l'esthétique officielle, de réhabiliter les sujets modernes, bas ou médiocres ; il faut affirmer le pouvoir qui appartient à l'art de tout constituer esthétiquement par la vertu de la forme (« bien écrire le médiocre »), de tout transmuer en Å"uvre d'art par l'efficace propre de l'écriture. «

esthétique telle qu'elle la décrit naïvement.

révolution du regard qui s'accomplit dans et par la révolution de l'écriture suppose et suscite à la fois une rupture du lien entre l'éthique et l'esthétique, qui va de pair avec une conversion totale du style de vie. Cette conversion, qui s'accomplit dans l'esthétisme du style de vie

L'esthétisme poussé à sa limite tend vers une sorte de neutralisme moral, qui n'est pas loin d'un nihilisme éthique.

Bien écrire le médiocre94 » : cette formule en forme d'oxymore concentre et condense tout son programme esthétique.

Architecture is about experience: not only visual but also what you can touch, what you can feel.

I grew up in a very visual household. My dad is a designer; my sister is a designer. My brother is an amazing architect who does music. But I think in the Chung household, how things looked was an important part of who you are.

There's so many things about Babymetal you cannot just grasp with the sound. The visual has to compliment the sound, the costumes have to compliment the sound.

The visual aspect of a dish is so important; the shapes and colors and overall design have to strike the right mood and convey the right idea.

Language, I think, has nothing to do with film-making. It is how you make your point and whether you exploit the visual medium maintaining a certain standard that does the trick.

We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty.

Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod embellishments - all these media and many other non-galleried forms have hosted and fostered esthetic delights that satisfy any rigorous definition of art.

I'm very interested in how visual artists think because I think the way that I think about music is similar. I'm very inspired by aesthetics and space.

Today, music is visual.

'Black Hawk Down' has such distinctive visual aplomb that its jingoism starts to feel like part of its atmosphere.

I try to educate people about materialism through my work. I try to show them real visual luxury.

Whether it be tour posters, album packaging, videos, stage design, etc., the visual aspect of music is very important to us.

Flowers are just a natural thing in my life. I gravitate towards them so much, just in every video that I do, every visual, for some reason, flowers are incorporated.