Quotes About Aesthetics

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

This meant various things, but two stand out. First, obviously, was that a church or a temple should look like a church or a temple, a house like a house, and not vice versa. But the Adam brothers would also assert that an architectural style must be flexible enough to compose and decorate any type of building. Therefore any building could be made to be beautiful, not only a town house or a commercial building, but even a warehouse—or a factory.

Without charm there can be no fine literature, as there can be no perfect flower without fragrance.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.

Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an attempt to impress the reader but to include the reader, draw the reader in, by explaining my experiences - the beauty I feel in a prime number, for example.

There's only a couple of coffee cups I'll use, because I like the way they feel in my hand. I realise I've got lots of others, but I won't use them because I just don't like... the thickness of the ceramic is too much, or the glaze isn't right.

I do not think that any realism is beautiful.

You have to keep a feeling of goodness in your exteriors.

I just think it's great to show a gown that's $8,000 and a shoe that's, like, $25 - but still look fabulous together.

I feel like you could watch 'Grand Budapest' without sound, and it would still be funny.

Perhaps because of my background as a graphic designer, I'm drawn to rich and beautiful colors.

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.

If I am not grotesque, I am nothing.

To find beauty in the most grotesque things is a gift.

Esthetically, let's move the ball. Let's guard people. Let's fight.

It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.

Scoring from a metre out is just as beautiful as lobbing a goalkeeper from the halfway line.

Airports need an identity, a main hall that defines the dignity of the space and allows people to move fluidly throughout its ancillary parts.

La ciencia es la estética de la inteligencia.

Beauty conveys truth, but not the way we thought. Aesthetic significance does not deliver truth about the human condition in general: it delivers truth about the condition of a particular human, the artist.

Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas