Quotes About Aesthetics

Kitsch is fake art, expressing fake emotions, whose purpose is to deceive the consumer into thinking he feels something deep and serious, when in fact he feels nothing at all.

Once we start to celebrate ugliness, we become ugly to.

We call something beautiful, when we gain pleasure from contemplating it as an individual object, for its own sake, and in its presented form.

Beauty is a value as important as truth and goodness

The pursuit of absolute or ideal beauty may distract us from the more urgent business of getting things right. It is well and good for philosophers, poets and theologians to point towards beauty in its highest form. But for most of us it is far more important to achieve order in the things surrounding us, and to ensure that the eyes, the ears and the sense of fittingness are not repeatedly offended.

I have always been a sucker for ideas I find aesthetically pleasing.

The photograph touches me if I withdraw it from its usual blah-blah: "Technique," "Reality," "Reportage," "Art," etc.: to say nothing, to shut my eyes, to allow the detail to rise of its own accord into affective consciousness.

She had all the right parts in all the right proportions.

The right brain is better than the left in perceiving space and making judgments as to balance, harmony, and the composition of gestalts, from which we make aesthetic distinctions between ugly and beautiful.

Painting is mute poetry, and poetry is blind painting

was an aesthetically pleasing, yet highly functional, combination of old and new.

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

In fact, the environmental crisis is related to the crisis of aesthetics, crisis of social cohesion and the crisis of spiritual values.

Even monsters are beautiful.

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well. Remark

What a hideous colour khaki is

Nothing like modern art for sterilizing the life out of things.

Particularly when they're beautiful. Beauty's attractive, and we don't want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones.

Demoni. Angeli andati a male. Però bellissimi.

We put on our walls what we think is beautiful or inspiring, and if others think that it is manufactured or shallow, then they need not have it on their walls.

La bella figura...it's at the heart of Italian life...it's about doing things beautifully.

Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.

Beauty for Beauty's sake and only later for the sake of others, newborn for a day.