Quotes About Aesthetics

Being a decorator allowed me to see what about people's environments made them happy. And what things they could do to have more light and color and joy in their daily lives.

The clothes I like are not necessarily tailored.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

I've always been into taking my photos, cropping them square, putting them through a filter in Photoshop.

I happen to like Precisionism. It talks to me because I collect Cubism.

I'm not the kind of person who has tall stacks of beautiful ceramics in every corner of my cabinets.

Aesthetically, I don't really like the blond, tan thing. I am pale. So I may as well embrace the pale. Long, blond hair and a bad spray tan is the stuff of my nightmares.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I know, there really is an ?i' in architecture. But it's not a capital ?I', calling attention to itself, dominating discussion. The lower-case character fits neatly within the word. Its there only because it fulfills requirements for proper spelling and pronunciation.

theological aesthetics will consider God, religion, and theology in relation to sensible knowledge (sensation, imagination, and feeling), the beautiful, and the arts.

Kaohinani is a Hawaiian word meaning "gatherer of beautiful things.

There are only five things really worth drawing; four of them are pretty girls and the fifth is cats.

Spanish is so musical that a soap powder commercial in Spanish is more pleasing to the ear than the best free verse in English—the Spanish language is so beautiful that much of its poetry sounds best if the listener does not understand the meaning.

In our maturer years, when an object of vision is presented to us which bears any similitude to the form of the female bosom . . .we feel a general glow of delight which seems to influence all of our senses . . .

Her toenails were painted. It didn't help much. Never saw a toenail I liked.

Without the Indian Subcontinent, in other words, there could not have been a Vietnam in any cultural or aesthetic sense.

AESTHETICS OF THE AESTHETICIAN What is the aesthetician But a mule hitched to the times?

AESTHETICS OF OPERA Don't sing an aria To someone who can't Sing one back.

AESTHETICS OF COMEDY ASLEEP Don't wake the clown Or he may knock you down.

Buildings express values, they have a sort of grammar, and rooms are the sentences.

To me there is an intimate relationship between austerity and more lush aesthetics. They're two faces of the same coin.

Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.

the worship of beauty is to me a religion. Nothing bad was ever truly beautiful; nothing good is ever really ugly.