Quotes About Aesthetics

A arte é o grande estimulante da vida

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified .

In truth, nothing could be more opposed to the purely aesthetic interpretation and justification of the world which are taught in this book than the Christian teaching, which is, and wants to be, only moral and which relegates art, every art, to the realm of lies ; with its absolute standards, beginning with the truthfulness of God, it negates, judges, and damns art.

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

the existence of the world is justified only as an aesthetic phenomenon.

Nothing is beautiful, only people are beautiful: all aesthetics is based on this naïveté, this is its first truth. Let us immediately add its second: the only thing ugly is a degenerating person, - this defines the realm of aesthetic judgment.

Postojanje i svet izgledaju opravdani jedino kao estetski fenomen: u kom smislu nas upravo tragi?ki mit treba da ubedi kako su ?ak i rugoba i nesklad umetni?ka igra koju volja, u ve?itom preobilju svoje naslade, igra sa samom sobom.

The first part, or the Æsthetics, which has nothing in common with art, disengages the a priori forms of sensible knowledge, namely, the forms of space and time, which furnish mathematics with their object. Æsthetics thus divorced mathematics from reality, for it makes the condition of mathematics not the real, but a mental form of space and time.

A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason.

I wouldn't go across the street to see a Bouguereau. His pictures look false; he does not get the truth of what he wishes to represent. His light is not outdoor light; his works are waxy and artificial. They are extremely near being frauds.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection.

We all have our preferences - some people go for birds - but for me, there's just something about the wolf; the design of it is really aesthetically pleasing.

If a man sees a woman with red lipstick, he admires her, but often he won't feel like kissing her.

Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.

Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.

There's a reason screens are only this thick.

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

Modeling, for me, isn't about being beautiful but creating something interesting for people to look at and think about.

There are usually three sections of people who like my work. There are those who like them aesthetically. They see beauty in the images. Second, there are those who like the horror aspect, which is by design, and I like that. Third, there are those who are moved by the historical or political nature of them. They want to talk about them.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.