Quotes About Aesthetics

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?

Que le verbe se fasse chair est décidément la seule chose qui m'intéresse. Le mystère de l'incarnation n'est pas à mes yeux une affaire de religion mais d'esthétique.

What demon could have induced people to line a whole room with orange fabric?

Art and theory of art, at one and the same time ; beauty and the secret of beauty ; cinema, and apologia for cinema. ' - Godard on Godard: Critical Writings

aesthetics is for the artists as ornithology is for the birds.

Abstract art filled the walls, lined the bookshelves. But all painted with the same crude hand, no eye to detail or form. Savagely mixed, the colors selected to hurt the eye. Jackson Pollock without the pictures. They were ugliness disguising themselves as talent.

When I walk into environments where the walls are clear, or even covered with pleasant artwork — or worst of all, motivational posters — it makes me sad.

How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.

Beauty brings copies of itself into being.

Something beautiful fills the mind yet invites the search for something beyond itself, something larger or something of the same scale with which it needs to be brought into relation. Beauty, according to its critics, causes us to gape and suspend all thought.

If you found something aesthetically displeasing, like Maple Sugar Estates, then the chances were that you would find it also morally repugnant—repugnant if for no other reason than because it justified making everything the same, taking life and dragging it to its lowest common denominator.

Beauty attracts beauty.

He kissed her palm and said simply, "They're brilliant." Cat drew a ragged breath, realizing that it was the first one she had allowed herself for a long time. "Ashcroft didn't think so," she said. "He told me they were cold and empty. Like me." "Ashcroft has the aesthetics of diarrhea.

Could anything so handsome, so decorative, so…so enthusiastic…possibly be useful?

This embroidery has cost at least two marks the meter," she said to herself, fingering it. "She must roll in money. And the wall-paper — how unpractical! It is so light that every mark will be seen. The flies alone will ruin it in a month." She shrugged her shoulders, and smiled; strange to say, the thought of Anna's paper being spoiled pleased her.

Beauty is the true way to change things for the better. To make things better. There should be a lot more beauty in all our lives. Beauty is truth, truth beauty. There is no such thing as fake beauty. Which is why beauty is so powerful. Beauty assuages.

Design is intelligence made visible.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

Las cosas inútiles, si son bonitas, sirven para algo ¿no? Aunque no sea más que para alegrarse de verlas

uno siempre es más hermoso cuando hay un término para designarlo, cuando posee una palabra sólo para él. El lenguaje es menos práctico que la estética.

No existen cosas demasiado hermosas: sólo existen percepciones cuyo apetito de belleza es mediocre.