Quotes About Aesthetics

Art must always stand guard against stirring emotions that lie outside the aesthetic: sexual arousal, terror, disgust, shock.

Lorsque le cÅ"ur a parlé, il n'estpas convenable que la raison élève des objections. Au royaume du Kitsch s'exerce la dictature du cÅ"ur.

kitschul este, in esenta, negatia absoluta a cacatului; atit in sensul propriu cit si in cel figurat al cuvintului; kitschul exclude din cimpul sau vizual tot ce-i esential inacceptabil in existenta umana.

Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.

Un esteta diría —continuó— que su trasero es demasiado voluminoso y está un poco bajo, lo cual es aún más excitante dado que su alma ansia las alturas. Pero precisamente en esa contradicción se concentra, a mi juicio, el destino humano: la cabeza está llena de sueños y el trasero, como un ancla de hierro, nos mantiene a ras de tierra.

El kitsch provoca dos lágrimas de emoción, una inmediatamente después de la otra. La primera lágrima dice: ¡Qué hermoso, los niños corren por el césped! La segunda lágrima dice: ¡Qué hermoso es estar emocionado junto con toda la humanidad al ver a los niños corriendo por el césped!

Kitsch is a folding screen set up to curtain off death.

I love the shape of cars. They are very inspiring as modern pieces of machinery. I can't drive, but I do like the look of them.

I love David Fincher - even though it was just two scenes, I loved the way we worked and could tell by the way he was shooting it that this was going to be an affective movie to say the least.

I like what Proenza Schouler is doing. I also love the Miu Miu chunky embellished shoes and really like Prada as well.

There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just "works." I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.

I love a star print. I always get a lurch if I see a nice one.

I love every period in design history. Even the ugly ones.

The love of dress is very marked in this attractive animal.

I love paperwhites - they smell heavenly and you can often pick them up from a big home improvement store garden center already planted in pretty terra cotta pots.

Two young, fit, healthy attractive people in love? There's nothing worse to look at in the world.

God, the name Susan is so ugly. It reminds me of the word sinus.

Feelings aren't facts and opinions aren't crimes and aesthetics still count—and the reason I'm a writer is to present an aesthetic, things that are true without always having to be factual or immutable.

What has been made all but impossible by the industrial system is that men and women can attain a livelihood by doing what is both aesthetically and morally sound and economically and practically valid, by a means that allows them both intellectual and spiritual responsibility.

Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.

When the objects we use every day and the surroundings we live in have become in themselves a work of art, then we shall be able to say that we have achieved a balanced life.

the vase once had an extremely common use. Most probably it was used for cooking-oil. It was made by a designer of those times, when art and life went hand in hand and there was no such thing as a work of art to look at and just any old thing to use. I

When the objects we use every day and the surroundings we live in have become in themselves a work of art, then we shall be able to say that we gave achieved a balanced life.

What is a car, for many people, if not a piece of travelling sculpture?