Quotes About Aesthetics

In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste.

Good design is being able to put a $100,000 thing next to a $20 thing. If it looks right and it works then it works. It doesn't have to be expensive; it's all about the high meets low for me.

People pull away from something if it's not of good taste. People lean into something if it's okay.

Good taste shouldn't have to cost anything extra.

I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.

Passion paralyzes good taste.

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

As designers we have a great responsibility. I believe designers should eliminate the unnecessary. That means eliminating everything that is modish because this kind of thing is only short-lived.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find it hard to tell the difference.

Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.

I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture.

One cannot create happiness with beautiful objects, but one can spoil quite a lot of happiness with bad ones

Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.

You can't escape the influence of architectural history.

Beauty is the product of the dominant ideology. (Thus when ideology changes, the ideal body follows.) We can see that in the history of art.

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes, or of one's childhood, or of a storm at sea.

throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty.

Home staging is no longer optional in this real estate market, it is a must!

I don't buy art. I'd rather buy a beautiful location or a beautiful site than buy art. A beautiful home is like owning a beautiful painting, except you can live in it.

A real Rembrandt hung in a millionaire's home elevator would undoubtedly make for kitsch.