Quotes About Aesthetics

You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.

The aim of a great radio network, like that of a fine newspaper or magazine should be to integrate the disparate events and ides around us into accessible, regular programming: not just the classy events and elegant ideas, not just the natural concerns of aesthetics and charitable worthies. The result should be a mix of wordsin which those listeners who ne er read Call it Sleep might sense an invitation to do so and ... capture the voice of Noah Adams captured in Northern Ireland ...

Ik ben voor geen enkele vorm van schoonheid immuun.

architecture begins and ends in pictures…

Is Ronchamp reminiscent of the Ark left stranded on Ararat, or like 'bits of broken china thrown on top of the hill'? Is the roof like a bird's wing, or does the whole edifice look like a decoy? Is it an alighting dove or a sitting duck? Good taste bids us to suppress the latter in favour of the former, although the latter is as easy to see.

It was immensely attractive, in the way that a sparkling creek glimpsed through trees draws the eye, or the smell of fresh-baked bread wakes hunger.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder…

Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.

The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.

How beautiful that is! said Laurie softly, for he was quick to see and feel beauty of any kind.

Just now it's the fashion to be hideous; to make your head look like a scrubbing brush, wear a strait-jacket, orange gloves, and clumping, square-toed boots. If it was cheap ugliness, I'd say nothing; but it costs as much as the other, and I don't get any satisfaction out of it.

have nothing in your house that you don't know to be useful nor think to be beautiful.

You can only possess beauty through understanding it.

I am courteous enough to assume that everyone in this so aesthetically voluptuous age, so potent and aroused that conception occurs as easily as with the partridge which, Aristotle says, needs only to hear the voice of the cock or its flight overhead - to assume that at the mere sound of the word 'concealment' everyone can easily shake a dozen romances and comedies from his sleeve.

In the first case, he personally enjoyed the esthetic; in the second case, he esthetically enjoyed his personality.

Of what good is an armchair of velvet when the rest of the environment does not match? It is like a man going around naked and wearing a three-cornered hat.

If the sphere of paradox-religion is abolished, or explained away in aesthetics, an Apostle becomes neither more nor less than a genius, and then--good night, Christianity! Esprit and the Spirit, revelation and originality, a call from God and genius, all end by meaning more or less the same thing.

No me gustan las jóvenes que se consideran interesantes, pues sólo se llega a serlo tras un estudio de uno mismo, igual que en lo interesante se exhibe siempre la persona del artista. Una señora que pretenda gustar por ser interesante, ha de comenzar por agradarse a sí misma. Esto no es bonito: constituye una de las desventajas que la estética puede reprochar a la coquetería

How can the removal of beauty from a world so lacking in beauty be anything but tragic?

The art of the cinema,' Truffaut allegedly said, 'is to point the camera at a beautiful woman.

People can delight in the saddest of sob-stuff, as long as they find it beautiful.

Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.

Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture.

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.