Quotes About Aesthetics

That is one reason why I did not like the pictures here, dear uncle–which you think me stupid about. I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false

so much that seems to me a consecration of ugliness rather than beauty.

Es doloroso oír decir que algo es muy hermoso y no ser capaz de apreciarlo... como la ceguera cuando otras personas hablan del color del cielo. - Hay muchas cosas en la apreciación del arte que dependen de gustos adquiridos (...). El arte es un lenguaje muy antiguo con muchos estilos artificiosos y a veces el principal placer que se obtiene surge del hecho mismo de reconocerlos (p.230).

It is for art to present images of a lovelier order than the actual, gently winning the affections, and so determining the taste.

I just loved to see wonderfully dressed women, and I still do. That's all there is to it.

We've gone from a world in which Starbucks set a cutting-edge standard for mass-market design to a world in which Starbucks establishes the bare minimum. If your establishment can't come up with an original look, customers expect at least some sleek wood fixtures, nicely upholstered chairs, and faux-Murano glass pendant lights.

I love beautiful wood.

I like all my jackets to be on wooden coat hangers, all facing the same direction.

I love the cleanness of Kaare Klint and Rud Rasmussen furniture, especially the wooden criss-cross under-bars of their sofas.

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

Whether it is a garden gnome, the sound of Bing Crosby launching into 'White Christmas', the blinking innocent eyes of Bambi or the words of Patience Strong, the kitsch phenomenon is there as strong and recognisable as your mother's face. You seldom if ever have the question, whether this is kitsch or not. If you think it might be, then it is.

In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.

As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.

The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.

Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to cut clothes with respect for the living, three-dimensional body rather than to cover the body with decorative ideas.

I wouldn't apply high frame rates to a love story or a thriller or a film noir or a mystery.

A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form.

I have very tidy cupboards. I do like a cupboard to look nice when you open it, with the labels facing forward.

Everybody has their own taste, and I allow for that, but personally, I don't like a striped tie on a striped shirt. I don't like brown shoes with a blue suit. Cordovan maybe, but not brown.

When you walk around the property, everything ties up together and looks good. That is the main goal as a designer.

I think men like things tight and simple.

Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.