Quotes About Aesthetics

....basically the sort of guy who looks entirely at home in sockless white loafers and a mint-green knit shirt from Lacoste.

It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted.

My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

What about mold, " Tom reminded her. "Fuzziness on a girl is never attractive.

This (San Francisco) is the most beautiful city in America, Probably because it looks nothing like America

They say everything looks better with odd numbers of things. But sometimes I put even numbers—just to upset the critics.

Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.

Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

Crossing too many t's and dotting too many i's makes a room look overdone and tiresome. One should create something that fires the imagination without overemphasis.

The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

Those who not love what they see, will have a unpleasant emotional feeling about it. Degenen die niet houden van wat ze zien, zullen een onaangenaam emotioneel gevoel over hebben.

boobs are twice as large as normal. From where I sit, that's pretty

Art can be defined as beauty able to transcend the circumstances of its making.

He cast a glance at the heavy-metal posters on the walls. One was peeling off at a corner and another had been torn and taped back together. "Norm said I could take those down," Kenzie told him. "You don't like them?" he asked dryly.

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.