Quotes About Aesthetics

Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch of grass, shrubbery and the occasional tree that exists purely to stop the original developer's plans from looking like a howling concrete wilderness.

culminating in one of those formless red brick shopping centres which artfully combines a complete lack of aesthetic quality with a total disregard for the utilitarian function for which it is built.

One Hyde Park squatted next to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel like a stack of office furniture, and with all the elegance and charm of the inside of a photocopier. Albeit a brand new photocopier that doubled as a fax and document scanner.

You can say what you like about late-sixties architecture, but when they baked in the ugly they baked it in good.

The bungalow was a hideous red-brick structure built, if I had to guess, in the early 1980s by some hack architect who'd been aiming at art deco and hit Tracy Emin instead.

Economy is the aestethic of practical life - morality is its logic

La boca de la Nela, estéticamente hablando, era desabrida, fea; pero quizás podía merecer elogios, aplicándole el verso de Polo de Medina: «es tan linda su boca que no pide».

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Why is geometry often described as ""cold" and ""dry?" One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline, or a tree. Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.

Bling is passe, and I like my style to reflect just that. Ruthless editing defines true style perfectly.

Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.

I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings.

One of the questions that has most bothered me in my reflections on culture is the question of kitsch. Just what is it? When did it begin? And why?

Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity.

Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.

The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.

In every phase of the automotive industry, certain factors have been more important than all others in relation to the way the automobile has looked. Phase One is really the Ford story. Function and production were the most important considerations. The automobile was an invention, and it looked like one.

I can't make a house homely. My house just looks like a garage or a shed. I'm not untidy, but it just looks so uninviting.

I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.

If you make horror movies, you always have to think what's photogenic and what's not.

Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

Steampunk has been hovering around for a long while, and it's never really caught on in a big way.