Quotes About Aesthetics

Beauty is our escape from the murky flesh-envelope that imprisons us.

have our brains retained or even reinvented aesthetics that arose in other lines of life? If so, our convergence with insects is a mystery worthy of awe for the little elders at our feet and flitting among the the flowers of our gardens. Regardless of who gets our thanks for the honor, there is no more wondrous fact than that we are kin, bee and bird of paradise- and great elephant- stardust, all.

To relate a Beethoven sonata to the testicles is hardly in the style of traditional aesthetics.

Light is what gives joy to buildings.

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.

Kant described beauty as a feeling of ungraspability: this is why the beauty experience is beyond concept.

My kiss in 'Kalyug' was beautifully shot.

Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.

One of the most inexplicable characteristics of the Germans is their love of kitsch.

Kitsch is very important to me.

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

If you can't take the kitsch, get out of the kitchen.

Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.

I enjoyed decorating because I'd never gotten to do it before and I see things in structures and patterns, and decorating is a way of arranging things to achieve maximum visual happiness. If

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

I love classic beauty. It's an idea of beauty with no standard.

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It's like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

Nadie se divorcia impunemente de la belleza.

Everyone thinks they have good taste, but most people do not have good taste. In fact, I'd argue that most people have terrible taste. When left to their own devices—literally their own devices—they read crap and they don't know the difference.

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for Capitol residents, being a real person means a kind of birdlike flight, freed from any kind of gravity - aesthetic, ethical, or relational - an effortless flapping of weightless wings on the way forward toward the always receding and ever more lurid 'final word in entertainment'.

I have no little insight into the feelings of furniture, and treat books and prints with a reasonable consideration. How some people use their pictures, for instance, is a mystery to me; very revolting all the same--portraits obliged to face each other for ever--prints put together in portfolios.

If, forgetting the respect due to the Creator, I were to attempt a criticism of creation, I would say 'Less matter, more form!

Art is the production of the beautiful and the sublime in nature and man.