Quotes About Aesthetics

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver. It is truly one of the things that make life worth living and it does so, if anything, more effectively if it convinces us that the time we have for living is quite finite.

The good, the true, and the beautiful are always their own best argument for themselves—by themselves—and in themselves.

our intellectual quest for truth can never be separated from the cultivation of our moral and aesthetic imagination.

He talks about you...he thinks you're beautiful...

William Morris that you should have nothing in your house that you didn't know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

It was impossible to instruct on the subject of beauty, of course. It simply was.

Morris says that you should have nothing in your house that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful," she

Most of what we consider beauty is manufactured, but the fact of that manufacture does not make it unbeautiful.

Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings.

There was a difference between art, which you just looked at, and things like soap, which you used. Even if the soap smelled so good that you didn't want to use it, only smell it. This was why people got so pissed off about art. Because you didn't eat it, and you didn't sleep on it, and you couldn't put it up your nose. A lot of people said things like That's not art when whatever they were talking about could clearly not have been anything else, except art.

dozen multiple intelligences—cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence, moral intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, kinesthetic intelligence, logico-mathematical intelligence, spiritual intelligence, aesthetic intelligence, and so on.

intrinsically vulgar, depraved, or morbid. That's as may be. "Using" is inferior to "reception" because art, if used rather than received, merely facilitates, brightens, relieves or palliates our life, and does not add to it.7

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.

If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

Nothing useless can be truly beautiful.

Have nothing in your house you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

everything made by man's hands has a form, which must be either beautiful or ugly; beautiful if it is in accord with Nature, and helps her; ugly if it is discordant with Nature, and thwarts her; it cannot be indifferent...

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful"- 1834

1. The picture must, by its mere arrangement, make you look at it. 2. Having looked—see! 3. Having seen—enjoy! The

Beauty itself doth of itself persuadeThe eyes of men without an orator.

Art is the effort to appreciate and express the God who is its Beauty.