Quotes About Aesthetics

I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.

The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.

Figura 5-4. Objetivos «sin compromiso». 1. Alta velocidad, manejabilidad/estabilidad Y AUN ASÍ Una conducción agradable 2. Conducción rápida y suave Y AUN ASÍ Bajo consumo 3. Muy silencioso Y AUN ASÍ Peso ligero 4. Estilo elegante Y AUN ASÍ Gran aerodinámica 5. Acogedor Y AUN ASÍ Interior funcional 6. Gran estabilidad y alta velocidad Y AUN ASÍ Gran valor de CD

the story of liberty and its future is not only about the raw assertion of rights but also about grace, aesthetics, beauty, complexity, service to others, community, the gradual emergence of cultural norms, and the spontaneous development of extended orders of commercial and private relationships. Freedom is what gives life to the human imagination and enables the working out of love as it extends from our most benevolent and highest longings.

She was 'clean': no piercings, tattoos or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame them, Alex thought, after watching three generations of flaccid tattoos droop like moth-eaten upholstery over poorly stuffed biceps and saggy asses?

eyebrows have never inflicted a moment of pain on me.

She was clean": no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame them, Alex thought, after watching three generations of flaccid tattoos droop like moth-eaten upholstery over poorly stuffed biceps and saggy asses?

that they were often as thrilled by trash as by an acknowledged masterpiece (32)

Vatican Palace…because in Venturi's words, 'Less is

Humans have a saying that Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which basically means that if you think it's beautiful, then it is beautiful. The elfin version of this saying was composed by the great poet B.O Selecta, who said Even the plainest of the plain shall deign to reign, which critics have always thought was a bit rhymey. The dwarf version of this maxim is If it don't stink, marry it, which is slightly less romantic, but the general gist is the same.

Most craft give a nod, however brief and unfriendly, towards beauty. Vogon ships did not nod towards beauty. They pulled on ski masks and mugged beauty in a dark alley They spat in the eye of beauty and bludgeoned their wait through the notions of aesthetics and aerodynamics. Vogon cruisers did not so much travel through space as defile it and toss it aside.

Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees.

Rothko's paintings consist of strong formal elements such as color, shape, balance, depth, composition, and scale.

They explored the nature of visual representation by reducing images to their essential elements of form, line, color, or light.

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

S'appeler Plectrude, c'était à double tranchant : soit on était laide et ce prénom soulignait votre laideur, soit on était belle et l'étrange sonorité de Plectrude démultipliait votre beauté.

He didn't just want pretty or hot. He wanted beautiful.

Reducing parables to a single meaning destroys their aesthetic as well as ethical potential.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

and de Sica are less spectacular but they are no less determined to do away with montage and to transfer to the screen the continuum of reality.

I have my own virtue, which I am constantly cultivating and refining by teaching myself not to tolerate in me or my surroundings anything but the exquisite.

And why wander in these labyrinths? Once more, for aesthetic reasons; because this present infinity, these "vertiginous symmetries," have their tragic beauty. The form is more important than the content.

Photography affects us like a phenomenon in nature, like a flower or a snowflake whose vegetable or earthly origins are an inseparable part of their beauty.

A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture.