Quotes About Aesthetics

The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

She was one of the people who say, I don't know anything about music really, but I know what I like. - Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson

Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted

I don't like movies where people's heads spin around, or where things come bursting out of their stomachs. I like movies with beauty makeovers and dancing.

She had expressed herself, as women will, in a smug broadside of pastel shades. Nothing clashed because nothing had the strength to clash; everything murmured of safety among the hues; all was refinement.

Ethics and aesthetics are deeply intertwined. Art, beauty, and craft have always drawn on the self-organizing 'wild' side of language and mind. Human ideas of place and space, our contemporary focus on watersheds, become both models and metaphors. Our hope would be to see the interacting realms, learn where we are, and thereby move towards a style of planetary and ecological cosmopolitanism.

Goethe's poems are like tiny paintings in beautiful frames.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

The romantic movement, in art, in literature, and in politics, is bond up with this subjective way of judging men, not as members of a community, but as aesthetically delightful objects of contemplation. Tigers are more beautiful than sheep, but we prefer them behind bars. The typical romantic removes the bars and enjoys the magnificent leaps with which the tiger annihilates the sheep. He exhorts men to imagine themselves tigers, and when he succeeds the results are not wholly pleasant.

The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge.

Bridges with cables very easily resemble stringed instruments.

Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.

Art is significant deformity.

Like in great painting and architecture, in couture, to make clothes you must eliminate, eliminate, eliminate to obtain the true sense of a line. You see, the more you add, the more you load on, the more it's mad. You must try to have just the silhouette, which is an intelligence in clothes.

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

My shoes aren't minimalist, but they are about a new simplicity.

There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

There's a lot of books that I've purchased simply because of the cover design. On the other hand, there's certain books that, even if I'm very curious about the content, I can't bring myself to buy if I really dislike the cover.

When we raise our game aesthetically, we elevate it morally and spiritually as well.

This leads to a veritable Kantian Antinomy of the aesthetic under late capitalism. Aesthetics must be simultaneously promoted beyond all measure, and yet reduced to nothing.