Quotes About Aesthetics

Literary newspapers, since they print the daily smatterings of commonplace people, are especially a cunning means for robbing from the aesthetic public the time which should be devoted to the genuine productions of art for the furtherance of culture.

Beauty is an open letter of recommendation, predisposing the heart to favor the person who presents it.

I told them that the form of a building must follow its function.

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

A flower of light pointlessly beautiful.

simplicity is a matter of taste.

If you are talking about beauty, books are cheaper than cosmetics.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

In my opinion, an individual without any love of the arts cannot be considered completely civilized.

I want industrial design to be a public subject. I want people to love objects the way they love clothing.

If you love it, you don't know much about typography. And if you hate it, you really don't know much about typography either and you should get another hobby.

I love New Orleans I love the way it looks. I love the way it feels.

You make beauty and it disappears, I love that.

Luis Barragan: simple, geometric, rectangular forms, walls with bright colours, shafts of light. Tadao Ando: natural light and contexts, zen-like experiences. Friedensreich Hundertwasser: human, in harmony with nature. Rafael Moneo: simple geometric massing, masonry. Glenn Murcutt: minimalist, vernacular. Kengo Kuma: traditional aesthetics, natural materials.

Interaction Designers, however, are required to balance issues of form with issues of time: An interaction occurs in the fourth dimension, and simply attending to aesthetics does not take into account the unfolding experience that a user has with a product.

The basic position of theological aesthetics, argued by reasonable inference from Scripture, is that beauty corresponds in some way to the attributes of God, and as such is a communicated property or phenomenon of the opera Dei ad extra.

My mom was an aesthetician and she went to beauty school back in the '60s. I just remember watching her do her makeup all the time. She always had her nails done, makeup on - her face was ready to go when she went out. I loved it.

Edward Said y Theodor W. Adorno, que eran refinados musicólogos, dedicaron páginas muy interesantes al contrapunto y la disonancia, una escritura musical y una forma estética fundadas sobre el contraste más que sobre la armonía tonal.[1] Son excelentes metáforas para definir el papel del intelectual.

Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsqequently turns its back on bad and good alike.

We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.

Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was only lust. And lust was not love.

Mrs. Darling to May Pentecost who showed Mrs. Darling her room: "I shall unpack my china in here, if your husband will be kind enough to bring it up. I do think it's important to be surrounded by pretty things, don't you?

The plainest row of books that cloth or paper ever covered is more significant of refinement than the most elaborately carved furniture.