Quotes About Aesthetics

There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then you see what the other players are giving to you. It's all about the transfer of energy between different actors.

Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.

It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.

Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.

By means of beauty, all beautiful things become beautiful.

Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.

I know good design when I fail to trip over it.

All departures from the mere accommodation of function are laden with messages, often very eloquent ones, and it is a critical part of the interior designer's education to become adept at reading those messages and then choosing which ones to send.

Nature is not primarily functional. It is primarily beautiful. Stop for a moment and let that sink in. We're so used to evaluating everything (and everyone) by their usefulness that this thought will take a minute or two to begin to dawn on us. Nature is not primarily functional. It is primarily beautiful. Which is to say, beauty is in and of itself a great and glorious good, something we need in large and daily doses.

Making music, dancing, the theater, conversation, proper and urbane deportment, these were cultivated here as particular arts. It was not the military, nor the political, nor the commercial, that was predominant in the life of the individual and of the masses.

Du holde Kunst, in wieviel grauen Stunden...'

I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.

Never ruin a good painting with the truth.

While truth is ultimately convergent, beauty is ultimately divergent. No one can and no one should tell anyone else what that person should consider beautiful.

Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth.

By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is ugly, and it is only the ugly that is universal.

Truth needs no color; beauty, no pencil.

He'd realized the importance of that, of making sure everybody was in on every decision and being on the same page aesthetically with him—and behind the sentiment of the song.

the way a drop of blue paint intensified whiteness.

A minimál látótér gyönyör?sége

In art, the obvious is a sin.

As much as early 2000s aesthetics are something I was pining for and very much love, I would occasionally struggle to find one singular image or one singular site that summed up all of my memories really well.

I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.

I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.