Quotes About Aesthetics

We just want to make really great-looking clothes that are well-made, fit well... that you can skate in.

The scenes in 'The Virgin Suicides' where Elle Fanning is ice skating are really amazing.

Avoid any exercise that is quad-centric. None of my clients come to me because she wants bulkier quads - you aren't fitting into your skinny jeans with those!

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.

I love fashion, but maybe I love it peripherally.

If today I have to make a political statement, it is, 'I love beauty.' I think beauty makes people better.

I hate clothes that look saleable. I love when they look desirable.

I love Prada shirts because they're so decorative and figure-hugging, but I also like Reiss shirts because they're clean, simple and look as if they've come off the peg from a design house.

Aesthetically, I love the whole history of the music.

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.

I love well-designed products that combine form and functionality.

I've never met a color I couldn't love.

I love art, but I'm not an academic; I just like what I like.

Not every visitor was enchanted. William Morris, the future designer and aesthete, then aged seventeen, was so appalled by what he saw as the exhibition's lack of taste and veneration of excess that he staggered from the building and was sick in the bushes.

In the time of Dickens, almost all ironwork was green, light blue, or dull gray.

Simeon Potter notes that when James II first saw St. Paul's Cathedral he called it amusing, awful, and artificial, and meant that it was pleasing to look at, deserving of awe, and full of skillful artifice.

There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature... and the thing which pleases us.

Eloquence.— We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true.

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

CHAPTER 13: WORKING WITH STYLE SHEETS

Recuerdo que lo feo es lo que hace que lo bonito sea bonito.

As for me, the closest I have come to exaltation has been here at the university, with a book in my hand. Literature has served me faithfully (no pun intended) as an ersatz religion, and I would wager that the pursuit of the ineffable via aesthetics in various forms has saved as many foundering souls as a belief in god.

The beautiful must be incongruous.