Quotes About Aesthetics

I really love New York. I just love the aesthetics and the spirit of New York. I've just always loved the energy of it. When you're flying into New York and you look out of the window, it's like you're flying into another planet. I've never stopped being amazed at it.

And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.

If talking about arts means being pretentious, a bit like being a wine critic, then I don't feel comfy with that. You can get a lot from paintings without getting mystical about brush strokes.

In China, we had some buildings that looked like the White House or wine bottles. All they seemed to represent was bad taste.

This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys.

I really cringe at the sight of pattypan squash. So pretty and cute and having no taste or exciting texture. Dull.

I am all for greening tall buildings, but I'm also very keen to note that greening a building doesn't cope with the problem of the tall building in the texture of the city.

I don't disagree with seeing a Rubens of a nude body, but I don't believe in a nude body in action. With Rubens, thank goodness, they aren't in action.

The first thing you see when you walk into a store is color.

There's intense personal gratification in finding a mountain and becoming inspired by the aesthetics of an unclimbed line on that mountain, especially if that line has been tried by a lot of people who couldn't do it, and you get to set yourself up against the history of it.

Beauty is very important, but it's not the most important thing in the world.

The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middle of a room where it's like a somber fellow making electronic judgments on you.

The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic.

Just because something's legible doesn't means it communicates. More importantly, it doesn't mean it communicates the right thing. So, what is the message sent before somebody actually gets into the material? And I think that's sometimes an overlooked area.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

I don't like to explain the clothes, how I made them, the theme, et cetera. It's because the clothes are just as you see them and feel them. That's what I want... just see and feel them.

I feel like now fashion is just part of how I think about everything. When I send out a mood board to our contributors every month about our monthly theme, there are photos from our fashion shows, but there are also film stills and album art.

Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.

Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.

We appreciate beautiful things not for their utility only, but also for what they are in themselves—or more plausibly, for how they appear in themselves.

Death is a thing of beauty, but equally a destroyer of beauty. That is the paradox that we are left with.

People put too much stuff on their walls.

It is clear that ethics cannot be expressed. Ethics are transcendental. (Ethics and æsthetics are one.)