Quotes About Aesthetics

I was like, 'I would like to see everybody dress beautifully.'

I'm an aesthetic person who loves beauty.

On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It's just not the way we really behave.

A Mac PowerBook is a thing to behold.

I'm quite into the idea of engineering being beautiful.

An odd thing about beauty, however, is that it's absence tends not to arouse our sympathy as much as other forms of privation do.

Your books are arranged by the color of their spines, she said. How stupid.

Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy of the environment's objectivity or the individual's psychic history. Guided by the latter, art is redeemed, makes the world into its instrument, and forges, beyond spatial and temporal prisons, a personal vision.

La música, los estados de felicidad, la mitología, las caras trabajadas por el tiempo, ciertos crepúsculos y ciertos lugares, quieren decirnos algo, o algo dijeron que no hubiéramos debido perder, o están por decir algo; esta inminencia de una revelación, que no se produce, es, quizá, el hecho estético.

Football is aesthetically ugly. Eleven players against eleven others running after a ball are not especially beautiful.

I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.

In an anthropological respect, let me reiterate, a human being is an aesthetic creature before he is an ethical one. Therefore, it is not that art, particularly literature, is a by-product of our species' development, but just the reverse. If what distinguishes us from other members of the animal kingdom is speech, then literature – and poetry in particular, being the highest form of locution – is, to put it bluntly, the goal of our species.

Art brings out the grand lines of nature. Antione Bourdelle

Good taste is the flower of good sense.

When I walk into a house and see good paintings on the wall, I can smell money. But when I see tatty old carpets on the floor under them, I smell real money.

Fine art can only be defined as exclusive, negative, absolute and timeless. It is not practical, useful, related, applicable, or subservient to anything else.

She had a way of wearing anything so that the cloth seemed glad and independently animated.

The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.

That was excellent! I mean, it didn't do anything, but it looked really cool!

Cultural evolution is synonymous with the removal of ornament from articles in daily use.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.

the development of culture is concurrent with the removal of ornaments from objects of daily use

L'architecture éveille en l'homme des états d'âme.. La tâche des architectes est de préciser ces états d'âmes.