Quotes About Aesthetics

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

If you see a Renaissance body, this is completely ugly in this time. Everybody has to be skinny. But the Renaissance body with incredible flow of the meat everywhere, it was beauty.

The serpentine line, or the line of grace, by its waving and winding at the same time different ways, leads the eye in a pleasing manner along the continuity of its variety.

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created an industry without art.

Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer.

You could make beautiful pictures with paint, but there was nothing behind it.

We live in a world full of accidents finally in which on aesthetic principles have a consistency of which we can be sure. Right and wrong we will struggle with forever striving to create and maintain an ethical balance. Right and wrong we will struggle with forever, striving to create and maintain an ethical balance; but the shimmer of summer rain under the street lamps or the great flashing glare of artillery against a night sky – such brutal beauty is beyond dispute.

It's all about aesthetics, morality and aesthetics are completely similar.

Of course there is a way to stop the rampant spread of beauty. It has to do with regimentation, conformity, assemblyline aesthetics, and the triumph of the functional over the haphazard.

El conflicto estalla entre la moral del artista y la moral de la sociedad, no entre la estética y la moral. Pero a menudo esto no es comprendido; y entonces aparece la pérdida, la tragedia. Un artista que roba pinturas de una tienda, por ejemplo, se imagina haber tomado una decisión inevitable pero inmortal y luego se ve a sí mismo como caído en desgracia

The conflict lies between the morals of the artist and the morals of society, not between aesthetics and morality.

The conflict lies between the morals of the artist and the morals of society, not between aesthetics and morality. But

These creatures had no names for me. They might have come from any verse in Ovid, or from the writing of Lucretius, or indeed from the blind poet, Homer. It was no matter to me. I lost myself in depicting uplifted arms and graceful throats, in painting oval faces and garments blowing gently in the breeze.

She liked all things that were sensual and which involved beauty.

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

Reading good books spoils you for enjoying bad books.

La naturaleza, al menos, no necesitaba de operaciones para ser bella. Simplemente lo era.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. —Francis Bacon, Essays, Civil and Moral, "Of Beauty

And, if you're a designer, the typeface comic sans is a symbol of bad taste, low status, and laziness.

To look at him was to want him. To see him was to ache to touch him. He had been built to please, and trained to pleasure.

Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.