Quotes About Aesthetics

I like Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City. With the waterfall and things like that, I think it's pretty cool.

I just got a body wave because I wanted it to look good when it was down.

But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

What I loved about the 1950s is that there is an aesthetic to even the average film. The way the camera is placed, the way characters move, the way you dressed the sets, the respect for craft and actors, I do miss that in today's films.

The world is filled with archaic objects - mailboxes which look like alarm boxes, banks which look like places to break out of rather than places to enter.

I'm no interior decorator, but just I have a feeling that plastic plants in the bathroom... probably not a good idea.

I learned that things taste better on pretty plates.

We don't want to be a design line. Ultimately, we want to be a platform that houses many design aesthetics.

I love beauty. But I like the beauty accidentally, not dished up, served up on a platter.

Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.

Please your eye and plague your heart.

You can build a place that is beautiful, but nobody feels comfortable sitting in it, and the kids aren't allowed to go into many of the rooms. Or a place can look lived in, but it doesn't please the eye.

I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.

I appreciate film and stuff that's visually pleasing.

We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment.

Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.

I don't like mixed colors that much, like plum color or deep, deep colors that are hard to define.

Traditional paintings have few figures in them and value negative space. Japanese calligraphy and brush paintings are in black and white. Haiku is the shortest poem form in the world. These are a few examples of a minimalistic aesthetic in Japanese art and culture.

Consider your house from an aesthetic point of view.

It's a wonderful side effect of what we're doing, to give someone the strength to come out of the closet to their family, or simply present themselves aesthetically in a way they feel happy with, whether or not their friends are going to be allowed to like them anymore.

I don't have advice for people on how to dress. People should dress based on what they find beautiful. My best advice: Keep your clothes clean.

There's an art to making something look good when, on a hanger, it's just a black coat.