Quotes About Aesthetics

me es amargo entrar en un ámbito donde alguien que vive bellamente lo ha dispuesto todo como una reiteración visible de su alma

Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.

We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.

The quality that we call beauty ... must always grow from the realities of life.

In the mansion called literature I would have the eaves deep and the walls dark, I would push back into the shadows the things that come forward too clearly, I would strip away the useless decoration. I do not ask that this be done everywhere, but perhaps we may be allowed at least one mansion where we can turn off the electric lights and see what it is like without them.

After looking at myself in the mirror, I looked at Satsuko. I could not believe that we were creatures of the same species. The uglier the face in the mirror, the more extraordinarily beautiful Satsuko seemed. If that ugly face were only uglier, I thought regretfully, Satsuko would look even more beautiful.

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.

Jolie laide = "pretty ugly" Draws you to it...bored into heart and mind.

En percevant l'usage subtil de l'inutile, il est entré dans le royaume de l'art.

They have made me understand how the City can get under your skin, and never be sweated out. I mean, it's still aesthetically traumatic, but it's got spirit.

Color is so intuitive.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

The idea of creating a quote-unquote 'retro' world isn't all that appealing to me by itself.

There is so much talent in British fashion: a real cookie jar of different aesthetics with designers like Mary Katrantzou, Erdem, Christopher Kane, J. W. Anderson, and Simone Rocha.

Jewelry doesn't give me a sense of security or anything like that I just think it's beautiful.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

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Cuando los estetas se ponen metafísicos, suelen quedarse en alegóricos, y eso jode.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

I am a thing of beauty.

Wax was good. Wax was soft. Wax couldn't shatter like china. Wax was as beautiful as china.

Beauty must mean something. God must know something about how beauty works on the human heart. He must have made us that way.