Quotes About Aesthetics

Not a huge fan of exaggerated, big silhouettes.

Image plays a huge part in my music and in my lifestyle.

I try firstly to make buildings humane.

There were, of course, no sanitary napkins, or even newspapers, and the girls used large leaves – burdock leaves if they could find them – to protect themselves. But any blood showing on a dress meant death; it was unaesthetic, and the SS were very keen on aesthetics.)

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming'?

I love fashion and I love interior design. There are times when the two worlds collide but more often than not, they go side by side in tandem.

In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.

We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web browser without worrying about what everything looked like under the hood.

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard.

I've always put a lot of stock in aesthetics and visuals. I truly believe a picture is worth a thousand words and that fashion and glamour have the power to transport and transform someone.

For me, dance is about the aesthetics and the hard work that goes into creating something so beautiful. Motivation and dedication to the craft is what pushes me to do my best, to always strive to do better, and the outcome is always worth it.

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

'Form follows function' comes with so much baggage. It's a worthless phrase because you'll never take it for what it means.

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.

You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.

My type, which I didn't realize until somebody pointed out to me, apparently is brunettes with darker skin tones, but that is about it as far as aesthetically.

Most of my guitars have been instruments that look cool. I'm not picky. I never think, 'Oh, this neck isn't made of ebony,' or, 'These strings don't feel correct.' It doesn't matter too much.

'Drekitude' is the lowest point in the lowest ebb. It could be your look. It could be your shoes. It could be that you're standing wrong. 'Drek' is a total, total, total hot mess.

25. Flowering trees The blossom of the pear tree is the most prosaic, vulgar thing in the world. The less one sees this particular blossom the better...

Is beauty enhanced or adulterated by utility?

I don't want to turn any of this into poetry / but / you're so beautiful / flowers turn their heads to smell you

the love of beauty above the human is fascism

God is most proud of creation as an aesthetic thing. You have only to look at the exquisite harmony of sky and trees and moon and stars to see what a good job God did, aesthetically.