Quotes About Aesthetics

That's why we like to make things pretty; it's just'cause we're so dang sick of cleaning up horrible messes. Same instinct

I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.

I'm going to make everything around me beautiful—that will be my life.

Tristetea nu are niciun caracter estetic caracter ce nu lipseste decat uneori melancoliei.

Beauty must be more than an accident.

What at first was the delight of nations declines by slow but inevitable gradation into the luxury, or the business, or even the vanity of a few. What once spoke in accents understood by all is now painfully spelt out by a small band of scholars. What was once read for pleasure is now read for curiosity. It becomes "an interesting illustration of the taste of a bygone age," a "remarkable proof of such and such a theory of aesthetics."

Beauty and folly are generally companions.

It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.

I'd just as lief hear a thing as see it any day. I saw some music once and it wasn't half as pretty to look at as it was when I heard it.

Some people want to make the world a better place. I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't like it, you can paint over it!

The very smell of tobacco is abominable, for one cannot get it out of the curtains, and there is little pleasure in existence unless the curtains are all right.

Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?"     —Rita Rudner Long

Things are not more or less perfect, according as they delight or offend human senses, or according as they are serviceable or repugnant to mankind.

For a lovely bowl Let us arrange these flowers... For there is no rice

What do I care if you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad!

An artist is only an artist thanks to his exquisite sense of beauty -- a sense which provides him with intoxicating delights, but at the same time implying and including a sense, equally exquisite, of all deformity and disproportion.

Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal.

You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.

Art to me means lot of things - images and words. I may be no artist myself, but I recognise the pleasure you get from a new proverb or a new painting. It puts you in a particular frame of mind. Visually I like art, philosophically I like art.

The director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style.

Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.

I would like beautiful gymnastics to be recognized as the best. I want the judges to appreciate things that are not necessarily winning points.

Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.

When you're trying to recreate an era, eyebrows and hair are the most important thing to consider.