Quotes About Aesthetics

Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to cut clothes with respect for the living, three-dimensional body rather than to cover the body with decorative ideas.

That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.

I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.

En arte, el manierismo concede tanta importancia o más a la manera cómo está hecha la obra que a la esencia de lo que se expresa. También aquí, la acepción del término "forma" como "manera" o "modo" -y por extensión, incluso "moda"1- designa cosas exteriores.

Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

The ideal of musicality belongs to the stylistic layer of Symbolism, for music in literature is a function of language, of style. It is the stylistic element which is the most deeply rooted in the aesthetics and value-hierarchy of the Symbolist movement, and one which graphically illustrates the interrelatedness of ideas and of style, and the possibility of expressing ideas through the medium of art.

Tev š? vai t? visas skaist?s lietas liekas negl?tas…

R. John Williams calls the ongoing life of Orientalism in contemporary tech and corporate culture "Asia-as-technê," which he defines as "a compelling fantasy that would posit Eastern aesthetics as both antidote to and the perfection of machine cultures.

Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.

She resents the chipped paint of the table and the dingy closet they call a dressing room. (Dark City Lights)

A Tagore surname signifies an association with aesthetics and all the best things of life. It's enriching both personally and professionally.

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

Your eyebrows should be proportional to your face. If they're too overwhelming, it doesn't work.

The primary factor is proportions.

Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.

We believe that when prosperity comes to any country, people want to look and feel better. Hence the demand for aesthetics medicine would increase.

If only people realized Corbusier is pure nineteenth century, Manchester school utilitarian, and that's why they like him.

Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses

What once was moral is now, for us, aesthetic … What was social is now individual

What used to be moral is aesthetic for us. What was social is now individual.

Reading the newspaper is always unpleasant from an aesthetic point of view, and often from a moral point of view as well, even for those who don't worry much about morality. Reading about the effects of wars and revolutions – there's always one or the other in the news – doesn't make us feel horror but tedium.