Quotes About Aesthetics

Our lawns manifest our cultural desire: they are static, they are artificial, and they are kept sexually immature.

A belief in the validity of the acquisition of knowledge and a scientific understanding of the world we live in, the creation and appreciation of aesthetic phenomena in all their many forms, and the broadening and deepening of our range of experiences in day-to-day living, is rapidly becoming the 'religion' of our time.

It is ironical that for all the value we give to the rational, life is primarily governed by the irrational. Love is not rational. Sorrow is not rational. Hatred, ambition, rage and greed are irrational. Even ethics, morals and aesthetics are not rational. They depend on values and standards which are ultimately subjective.

It is ironical that for all the value we give to the rational, life is primarily governed by the irrational. Love is not rational. Sorrow is not rational. Hatred, ambition, rage and greed are irrational. Even ethics, morals and aesthetics are not rational. They depend on values and standards which are ultimately subjective. What is right, sacred and beautiful to one group of people need not be right, sacred and beautiful to another group of people.

Too much good taste can be boring

Too much good taste can be very boring.

Americans see Italian "come una lingua polisensoriale capace di aprire le porte al bello" ("as a multi sensory language able to open the gates to beauty").

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold

Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible, serving us without drawing attention to itself. Bad design, on the other hand, screams out its inadequacies, making itself very noticeable.

I enjoy doing layoutproblems of design. I could very cheerfully be a typographer.

Every writer in the country can write a beautiful sentence, or a hundred. What I am interested in is the ugly sentence that is also somehow beautiful.

The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.

Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.

The beautiful is always bizarre.

Photoshop makes things look beautiful just as you have special effects in movies. It's just a part of life.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.

What is the goal? A house that is like the life that goes with it, a house that gives us beauty as we understand it- and beauty of a nobler kind that we may grow to understand.

Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

I can claim to have made the daily life of the 20th Century more beautiful.

I want people to understand that design is so much more than cute chairs - that it is first and foremost everything that is around us in our life.

I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.

I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.