Quotes About Aesthetics

Art Nouveau objects, typically, convert one thing into something else: the lighting fixtures in the form of flowering plants, the living room which is really a grotto. A remarkable example: the Paris Métro entrances designed by Hector Guimard in the late 1890s in the shape of cast-iron orchid stalks.

Train yourselves by seeking and acknowledging beauty moment by moment every day of your lives, he told them. Exercise your eyes. Take pleasure in the grace of shape and the excitement of color.

Art for art's sake, we say, because beauty blesses humanity with a better life.

Exercise your eyes. Take pleasure in the grace of shape and the excitement of color.

She had yet to experience the effects of anybody's sex appeal, though she greatly admired Larry Bird—a fact that could not possibly have had anything to do with his looks.

Physical compatibility is a question of skin first and foremost. If the contact of one skin on another isn't immediately pleasing nothing else can possibly matter, but if it is, all other things may follow.

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate — you know someone's fingers have been all over it.

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors.

I was very influenced by the films of the '70s.

Beauty arises out of human inspiration.

I do appreciate the '80s as an era, the general sounds and aesthetics of the era. The Cure, that whole kind of image is really kind of amazing, I think. The power ballads and how everything sparkles and words are really dramatic. Huge drums, things like that. I do really find it inspiring.

Greece is so beautiful and inspiring.

I wanted to make an artwork that really underlined the contradiction between how machines see and how humans see. Because music is so affective and is just as corporeal as it is cerebral, I thought coupling a music performance with machine vision adds up to something that work on an emotional, aesthetic, and intellectual level.

Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.

My intention was to create something that people loved to look at and they could find inspiration from, and that was it.

I'm just not very interested in decoration.

I'm getting into interior design.

Fashion and interior design are one and the same.

My inspiration for interior design is more historical than traditional.

I don't like interior decorating. It looks gorgeous, but it doesn't have that lived-in look.

I've been fascinated with interior design for as long as I can remember.

I've always been very into interior design, and I can't stand to have anything in my apartment that I don't aesthetically love.