Quotes About Aesthetics

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting

Laying out grounds... may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.... it is to assist Nature in moving the affections... the affections of those who have the deepest perception of the beauty of Nature...

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.

The way the function dictates the form... elegant lines... nothing extraneous... this shoe perfectly expresses the essence of shoeness.

He had one of those faces where you were aware of the bones beneath the skin, as if even his bare skull would be attractive.

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

All buildings: big or small, beautiful or ugly, are the spiritualisation of matter

Brisbane put one in mind of wolves and lithe jungle cats, while Edward conjured images of seraphim and slim young saints. It required an entirely different aesthetic altogether to appreciate Brisbane, one that I lacked. Entirely.

We are mere humans, Veronica. We are destined to prefer beauty to ugliness." His

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.

Beauty lies in the eye.

It's like people don't only look good when they look like a magazine. People can be aesthetically beautiful in the way sunsets and leaves and things are.

Art is an expression of inner beauty.

If you look for beauty, you will find it.

Style jazzes up your canvas.

The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE

Beauty is a sign of intelligence.

Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.

Unless you have a feeling for that secret knowledge that modest things can be more beautiful than anything expensive, you will never have style.

Style can make complicated things seem simple, or simple things complicated.