Quotes About Aesthetics

Style is what happens when simplicity is achieved.

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

We are destroying all esthetic standards in the name of social justice.

Pragmatically, aesthetic value can be recognized or experienced, but it cannot be conveyed to those who are incapable of grasping its sensations and perceptions. To quarrel on its behalf is always a blunder.

I cannot locate any aestetic dignity in [Stephen] King's writing: his public could not sustain it, nor could he...Art unfortunately is rarely the fruit of earnestness, and King will be remembered as a sociological phenomenon, an image of the death of the Literate Reader.

The reception of aesthetic power enables us to learn how to talk to ourselves and how to endure ourselves.

Calling a work of sufficient literary power either religious or secular is a political decision, not an aesthetic one.

Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty.

Capital is necessary to the cultivation of esthetic value.

From a distance, most things look beautiful.

Why do people have to build such depressing places? I'm not saying that every nook and cranny of the world has to be beautiful, but does it have to be this ugly?

She looks clumsy, beautiful. It's a beauty that could pierce the most delicate regions of the heart of the viewer.

I don't like CDs," he replies. "Why not?" "They're too shiny." Kaoru

For the Greeks, beauty is truth; for the Hebrews, truth is beauty.

Oh, darling, you can't go around with that tatty green canvas thing. You look like some sort of Mary Poppins person who's fallen on hard times.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

There's been a lot of aesthetically rich horror films that have come out in the last several years. 'The Babadook' is this perfectly paced, beautiful film. 'The Witch' is a beautifully made film. 'Get Out' is so intelligently written. I feel like there's so many great things happening right now.

I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.

The philosophy of individualism owes a great deal to the tradition of novel-writing and novel-reading. In its development and in its aesthetics, the novel is not politically neutral; it has been a participant in history all along.

In age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air.

Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.

I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like.

Before Julius Erving, being a stylish basketball player meant 13 ounces of pomade in your hair and color coordinating the belt in your shorts with your canvas sneakers. Dr. J was a transcendent figure athletically, but he also changed the aesthetics of the sport.