Quotes About Aesthetics

La poesia, come il bene e il bello, è spesso contagiosa.

Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They're not afraid of the beauty, which is nice.

Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If it isn't ethical, it can't be beautiful. But if it isn't beautiful, it probably shouldn't be at all.'

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

Format is just the language. Content is the only thing that is important. Form is like handwriting. Whether you write in a scribble or clean handwriting or type it, the content remains the same. You want to write in clean hand, in a kind of a clear format only because it is aesthetically pleasing. I can scribble, that's also fine.

But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness.

Although I adore the Italian High Renaissance, I'd rather look at Mannerism. The former is ordered, integrated, otherworldly, and grandiose; it leaves you feeling hungry for something flawed and of-the-flesh.

The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems quite inimical to the dreamy state out of which fiction comes which seems so much less causally repetitive than the way one works on computers.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

You look at women at the Republican convention and women at the Democratic convention. Republicans have a certain aesthetic beauty that involves more makeup, bigger hair, more lurid outfits.

So many films are being shot on the DSLR, that they're all starting to look the same. There's a shallow depth of field. It's a nice look, but I can always identify a film shot with a DSLR.

Sadly, bird illustration has always been an under-appreciated art.

I'm interested in aesthetics, in the way things look, in finding something in an image that maybe people haven't seen.

I don't over-photoshop my images; I really don't like to do that so much.

I've always looked at shoes as being immensely beautiful things.

Breast implants gross me out. I don't think they're attractive at all.

If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.

My architectural education is way, way incomplete, but if you're in a beautifully designed space, it can change the way you see and the way you feel. The same way great movies and great music can immerse you, so can a space.

Fundamentally, I am all about finding interesting and authentic ways to incorporate nature into most of my designs.

Europe is merely powerful; India is beautiful.

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

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