Quotes About Aesthetics

Sólo faltaba que pudiésemos llamar obra de arte al urinario de Duchamp y nos prohibieran en nombre del buen gusto dar el mismo calificativo encomiástico a una faena de Curro Romero!

Ars est celare artem.

I have always been fascinated by Shaker design and the culture of the Shakers.

Fashion is not always about what's new, it's also about what's good. And I think if you need to see what's good, you have to be there.

I look at the feminine body as a piece of art.

What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things.

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

In everything I do, the aesthetics are driven by the emotion. However I can do that with a camera, whether it's a long lens or a wide lens, I'll do.

I don't love duck nails, where the nails are really wide on top. I am not a fan of that!

I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.

The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?

The idea that one might use art for 'instrumental' reasons tends to set off alarm bells at the heart of the cultural elite, who contend that it's not a pill, that it shouldn't be asked to perform some specific function, especially something as egocentric as to 'cheer you up' or to 'make you a more empathetic person.'

For me, CG tends to feel watered down and it becomes cold because it's so perfect.

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

I have no problem with the idea of comfort, but it is not an important thing aesthetically. If you look at a shoe and immediately say it looks very comfortable, in terms of design, it is not going to excite me. Of course, I am not putting nails in my shoes to ensure everybody is in pain, but a heel is not a pair of slippers and never will be.

The Coke bottle is a masterpiece of scientific, functional planning. In simpler terms, I would describe the bottle as well thought out, logical, sparing of material and pleasant to look at.

He's wrong. That's why his films look so terrible.

If the height of the heel is the same as the length of your foot, it starts to look wrong. And if the heel is positioned badly on the sole, you get into ballerina territory, where the body is pushed into a very strange posture. You can exaggerate the arch only so much.

In a sense, beauty is what one chooses to feel by virtue of what one chooses to imitate and to create.

including Francis Hutcheson, Adam Smith, and popularizers such as Archibald Alison, elaborating on sensibility and

Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.

I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.