Quotes About Aesthetics

Schiller is an important philosopher because he shows just how integral the idea of beauty is in normal life.

Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better.

It's really about putting that sort of quality and beauty back into our life.

Beauty is what I feel my life is about - the garden, the house, whatever. I see the world that way, yet it isn't.

There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.

I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.

People, through finding something 'beautiful,' think something else 'unbeautiful

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.

O Attic shape! Fair attitude!

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know, and all ye need to know.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

gobo n. the delirium of having spent all day in an aesthetic frame of mind-watching a beautiful movie, taking photos across the city, getting lost in an art museum-which infuses the world with an aura of meaning, until every crack in the wall becomes a commitment to naturalism, and every rainbow swirling in a puddle feels like a choice.

You can die from kitsch. And we're close to it.

I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

Many familiar objects from cassettes to credit cards and Georgian front doors are Phi (1.618...) rectangles.

I picked up a secondhand copy—$7.99—and read the text on the back: "Either, then, one is to live aesthetically or one is to live ethically." My heart was pounding. There was a book about this?

so I preferred to take highly specific classes with interesting titles, even when I hadn't taken the prerequisites and had no idea what was going on. I could see how my way might be called aesthetic.

All buildings have a psychological as well as a purely visual effect on the landscape.

Good food is also there to satisfy the senses.

In the souls of the craftsmen who carved this mine, utility was no excuse for a thing to be anything but beautiful.

Beauty depends on the unseen, the visible upon the invisible

Conservative Romans thought, as have conservatives ever since, that there was something unmanly about overdeveloped aesthetic interests. They exemplified what might be called a 'muscular paganism' – a cast of religion that was to resurface, notably, in the nineteenth century, this time with Christ, not Jupiter, as its figurehead.