Quotes About Aesthetics

Green and black go well together, dont they?

Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.

The object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai, but to make the bonsai look like a tree.

A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.

That which interests me above all else is the calligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and I mean leaf by leaf, branch by branch, blade by blade of grass.

We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.

Fashion is not beautiful, neither is it ugly. Why should it be either? Fashion is fashion.

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

The shapes of letters do not derive their beauty from any sensual or sentimental reminiscences' he wrote. 'No one can say that the O's roundness appeals to us only because it is like that of an apple or a girl's breast or of the full moon. Letters are things, not pictures of things

Beatrice Warde: "La copa de cristal o por qué el arte de la impresión debe ser invisible". Su teoría, sencilla pero contundente, defendía que incluso el mejor tipo de letra existía solo con el objetivo de comunicar una idea. No había sido creado para ser visto y mucho menos para ser admirado. Cuanto más visible la fuente o la maquetación de una página, peor la tipografía. (...) Cuanto más transparente el cristal, más se apreciará su contenido.

Las preguntas más importantes que debemos hacernos a la hora de elegir y valorar un tipo son: ¿se ajusta a la función que se le ha asignado? ¿Transmite el mensaje? Y ¿añade belleza a este mundo?

The lettering is clean, beautifully proportioned, easily read, and, well, ordered.

Nothing is more the child of art than a garden

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

I love art and fashion.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

When you build a beautiful building, people love it. And the most sustainable building in the world is the one that's loved.

You don't buy a Picasso because you love the frame.

If clothes look like a couch or an ottoman or a love seat, you just wanna stay away from it.

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

Everything is there: the love of Art.

The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.