Quotes About Aesthetics

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

If men wanted to look good in a skirt, they would need the body of an African. And the colour. A skirt with white, skinny legs. Horrible!

I do not decide that skirts shall be short or long. The shape of the dress itself often dictates the length.

Half the shows on Comedy Central are just multi-cam blue sets, and they kind of look like game shows from the '90s. It's like, 'Why do such a bland corporate aesthetic when the sky's the limit with what you can do?'

Extreme sports has changed our aesthetics because they slap cameras all over the place and we really know that they are jumping out of a plane or parachuting or whatever it is they're doing.

In the Seventies, album artwork became really beautiful items. The whole process of doing an album sleeve, it became a very artistic thing.

I like the things around me to be beautiful and slightly dreamy, with a feeling of worldliness.

A lot of people think that black makes rooms feel smaller, but it's the opposite.

I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if you don't give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself.

I want my home to look good, feel good, and smell good. I want it to be inclusive, to reflect the people who live there.

Old Vespas are very appealing to me. I love the way they feel. I love the way they smell. I love the curves on them. I have one of the earliest Vespas ever made, from the 1950s.

I like to dress well, I like to look good, I like to smell good.

Paul Smith's artwork was so elegant and so graphic, so I think that's always had a strong effect on me, especially starting out.

I really love Paul Smith. And Chrome Hearts. They make the most beautiful, high-end leather and outerwear and jewelry you've ever seen. But I'm not a big fan of shopping. I certainly am a fan of clothes and especially people that put time into the construction of them.

I like when a guy has his shirt off and I can see his chest and his abs. When it's all smooth, you can see a lot.

I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.

For sure, my sneakers gotta match my jacket.

For modern fashion designers, bones are beautiful. I don't know why, but so many people are obsessed with the skeletal look.

A single unmowed lawn ruins the whole effect, announcing to the world that all is not well here in utopia.

Kitsch is the inability to admit that shit exists

Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass! The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass!

How goodness heightens beauty!

It follows, then, that the aesthetic ideal of the categorical agreement with being is a world in which shit is denied and everyone acts as though it did not exist. This aesthetic ideal is called kitsch.

Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass! The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass! It is the second tear that makes kitsch kitsch. The brotherhood of man on earth wil be possible on a basis of kitsch.