Quotes About Aesthetics

I know that I put a lot into 'Hereditary', and I'm proud of what it is. Beyond the fact that the film takes its time and asks for a certain amount of patience from the audience - and I hope it rewards that patience by the end - I know that I'm something of an aesthete. I care about aesthetics, and I love filmmaking.

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

The lines of Pearl Art Glass are clean, certainly not cluttered.

Most industrial designers do a bottle or a pen or a computer - things that go right past your eye. When you see a chair, it's almost like a person. It's this great big thing in front of you. It hits you more.

I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.

They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.

Perfection would be something that you see in 'Architectural Digest.'

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

What makes architecture extraordinary is that you're looking at the building, but your peripheral vision is also seeing how it fits within a space. And it's seeing more than one part of the building at one time.

I think it is the natural and innate function of certain organisms to secrete beauty in permanent forms we call artworks, to respond to beauty by answering its discovery with a new beauty.

Wherever there is number, there is beauty.

Colors are the melodies that nature sings for beautyÛ"

Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.

Beauty without virtue is a rose without fragrance.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

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.

There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.

Nick commenced a monologue explaining the impossibility of such a phenomenon: the subordination of content to the aesthetics of language in Arabic literature, the dominance of panegyrics and eulogies as an art form, etc.

Flower-shopping is a ladylike occupation that does not involve getting your hands dirty; it is about supplying the house with beauty, not scrubbing it clean.

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

I didn't like the '80s at all; it was a vulgar moment of fashion.

Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that the only flowers to be admitted to the walled garden of good taste are discreet and pastel-hued.