Quotes About Aesthetics

It's great that we have commercial filmmakers who make family films and understand the aesthetics well, taking this route. They know how to bring the emotions out there without being vulgar. After all, it's a natural instinct.

Above all, I dislike vulgarity.

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.

When they get a 50-inch waist and a gorilla butt, it's ugly looking - and I think bodybuilding has become ugly looking.

'Fine dining.' I'd love to know who coined the term and whether they meant it to be as offputting as it is. The words evoke an idea of phoney refinement, of needless flummery, snooty waiters, and an atmosphere designed to intimidate the customer.

I went to department stores, and there was nothing that I really loved. All the shoes were too complicated, too crazy, too ridiculous, too extreme. The platforms were so high; the shoes were so ugly, covered in crystals and feathers and crap. I just thought, 'Maybe somebody wants a beautifully simple, sexy shoe that they can actually walk in.'

I am a big fan of movies from the '70s.

I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.

Less is a bore.

To me, score is really important. I would rather not have any score if it's something that's going to detract from the film. So often when I watch films, the score is what really bothers me.

I've always loved fashion, though I'm not good with brands.

I'm not a fan of brows that look blocky and square-like at the front.

I never wear a black belt with a black shoe. It's always the opposite: a brown shoe with a black belt.

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

I may be old-fashioned. But I believe there is such a thing as a search for beauty - a delight in the nice things in the world. And I don't think one should have to apologise for it.

I'm a sucker for packaging!

I can't watch a movie where the actors are great and the photography sucks.

I think you should suffer sometimes to be attractive and beautiful, so I cut the clothes very slim because I like to feel the clothes on my body.

A work of art can start you thinking about some aesthetic or philosophical problem; it can suggest some new method, some fresh approach to fiction.

I like pieces that are cool and simple. I try to wear really cute things, but they just don't suit me at all.

It's not being superficial, but looks do attract me from across the gym.

What the beautiful-writing writers are most attached to is almost always superfluous.

Read as little as possible in the way of aesthetics and criticism - it will either be partisan views, fossilized and made meaningless in its lifeless rigidity, or it will be neat wordplay, where one opinion will triumph one day and the opposite the next. Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them and do them justice.

Beauty without expression is boring.