Quotes About Aesthetics

While I was recording 'Ziltoid,' the movie 'Mars Attacks' came on TV, I think, six times in one week. So I don't know if there's any direct references or anything, but the aesthetics of that movie was definitely around while I was creating the music, so I'd be lying if I said it wasn't part of it.

I used to go and see the Clash a fair bit. I did think they were dead cool, and very handsome.

Looking at beautiful things is what makes me the happiest.

Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

Do you know what kills me? The cropped hats. The beanies that are rolled up past your ears, in the summer as well! There's no function to it.

The difference between me and a lot of other people is I can feel the effect of light, space, furniture, height, scale, distance, all these micro-environments affect me in a strong way.

Once people have seen four or five Henry Moores, they will have a sense of great art.

Hey, man, I like to look good; I wear make-up.

I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick.

Genetics is all about showcasing human beauty along with high-quality performance.

We're not trying to create a triple-A type of platform. We're focusing more on a platform where it looks and feels high-quality, but you can kind of look at it and figure out how someone made it.

Kipling is a jingo imperialist, he is morally insensitive and æsthetically disgusting. It is better to start by admitting that, and then to try to find out why it is that he survives while the refined people who have sniggered at him seem to wear so badly.

Why should the fruit be held inferior to the flower? "She's beautiful," he murmured. "She's a meter across the hips, easily," said Julia. "That is her style of beauty," said Winston.

That's her style of beauty.

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

There would be no history as we know it, no religion, no metaphysics, politics or aesthetics as we have lived them, without an initial act of trust, of confiding, more fundamental, more axiomatic, by far than any 'social contract' or covenant with the postulate of the divine. this instauration of trust, this entrance of man into the city of man, is that between word and world.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good.

I think, aesthetically, car design is so interesting - the dashboards, the steering wheels, and the beauty of the mechanics. I don't know how any of it works, I don't want to know, but it's inspirational.

There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.

We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

I don't use the harpsichord because it evokes a past time period: I use it because I like the sound.

Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.