Quotes About Aesthetics

I'm not a politically radical person. In fact, I'm much more interested in being radical aesthetically.

'CSI' was a little cutting-edge at the time because it made TV look like movies. It was shot in that Jerry Bruckheimer style with dolly shots, putting the camera on rails so stylistically, it looked aesthetically more like a film.

We want to raise the art of living well.

We all have Tumblr, and we all have Instagram and everything. People care so much about it because, now, any random can be famous on the Internet if their world looks good on Tumblr. And so everyone at high school strives for this kind of aesthetic correctness.

I used to love a well-arranged room: the furniture, the fabric, the lighting.

I've experienced firsthand the disconnect between furniture, their environments, and the way people work.

I'm not a furniture person. You sit on the stuff, sleep on it, make love on it.

The argument that a serif font is too fussy doesn't cut it anymore. You want a font where the letter forms are not ambiguous.

The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

I find a blatantly girly style with no charm boring.

Films are about lies. They're about making things look glamorous.

If you think about what are glasses, they are the best example of form and function.

I think cinema is so visually driven now, and people are so taken in by the glamour, gloss and all things good looking that we don't appreciate the craft as much as we used to in the bygone era.

I just love candles... the colour, the glow, the light.

When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had a beautiful binding. When you're a kid, you like books because they're pretty to look at, and this one had a white calfskin cover and gold edges. That was enough to make me love it.

I love when architects build a golf course that compliments the landscape rather than intrudes upon it.

The good is the beautiful.

Throughout the ages it has always been possible to point to good and bad architecture.

As a matter of fact , personally I am ok with exposing, as long as it is done in good taste.

Lighting is a good way to change the look of a place without spending much.

What is good work? You just know it when you see it. You just can't explain it.

Glory is to God what style is to an artist. Glory is what God looks like when, for the time being, all you have to look at Him with is a pair of eyes.