Quotes About Aesthetics

Obviously, I like very beautiful food, because I think as delicious as food has to taste, it also has to look very beautiful - the process of presentation is very important.

The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.

Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.

Twombly, frankly, was an acquired taste. I was not in love with Twombly the first time I saw one of his paintings.

That's the staggering, humorous thing about money. If you haven't got taste, money doesn't matter: You'll always look ghastly.

Advertising should always be in good taste without a question.

I really prefer light-eyed models, They photograph more easily. Of course, I come from a light-eyed background, so maybe that influenced my taste.

Changes in our aesthetic tastes have no value or meaning in and of themselves; what has value and meaning is the idea of change itself. Or, better stated: not change in and of itself, but change as an agent or inspiration of modern creations.

Fashion for my mother was about asserting and demonstrating you had aesthetics, tastes, sensibility, manners, beauty - qualities that black people were always trying to prove they possessed, because it was often assumed that we didn't.

I got simple tastes. Don't go in for all that flashy business.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

It's always a challenge to shoot a period film and not have it look like you hit the tea stain button in post.

Besides the aesthetics, besides teaching an appreciation of T.S. Eliot, a basic need is fulfilled when you teach English at CUNY.

The brilliant Albert Mendez refers to a Latin maxim from Medieval times, "De Gustibus Et Coloribus Non Disputandum," which means, there is no arguing about tastes and colors.

Is it terrible to not understand a thing, if it's beautiful?

There are no beautiful clocks. Everything to do with time is hideous.

Wouldn't if be nice if our government, could make things beautiful because everybody cares!

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. —Leonardo da Vinci

When a person has fallen in love with God, both his ethical commitments and aesthetical pleasures become focused and satisfying. But when the religious is lost, ethics devolves into, first, a fussy legalism, and then is swallowed up completely by the lust for personal satisfaction.

In the nude, all that is not beautiful is obscene.

A whole made of good images can be detestable.

In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like stale bread and mutton on the page. In a well-made book, where designer, compositor and printer have all done their jobs, no matter how many thousands of lines and pages, the letters are alive. They dance in their seats. Sometimes they rise and dance in the margins and aisles.

Typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order to be read, it must relinquish the attention it has drawn.

We're made so that we loveFirst when we see them painted, things we have passedPerhaps a hundred times nor cared to see;And so they are better, painted—better to us,Which is the same thing. Art was given for that.