Quotes About Aesthetics

Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.

Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.

The key, I think, is to hold true to your own aesthetics, that which you value, and yield to no one the power to become the arbiter of your tastes.

T]hink about culture as the collective manifestation of value—where value is that which is valuable to "sufficiently complex" agents, from which meaning, purpose, ethics, and aesthetics can be derived.

Yes, we humans are more than merely biological creatures. We appreciate beauty, we struggle with ethical conflicts, and we strive to make sense of our purpose in the universe, asking questions that science cannot answer. And yet, our sense of aesthetics, our moral sensibilities, and our search for meaning may themselves be intricately connected to the fabric of the cosmos.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works. The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked.

That's the trouble with science. It has to explain beauty. It can't just let it be.

No image can be more beautiful than its meaning.

I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of literature.

There's something about soft, unstructured arms that's very beautiful.

I value multi-layered artwork that warrants a second glance, so I try my best to achieve that with my own work. If something is solely pretty or solely disgusting, you look at it once and get the gist and move on. If it's a mix of both, it's potentially more interesting.

The designer must understand that form does not follow function nor does form follow a production process. For every use and for every production process there are innumerable equally attractive solutions.

Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter.

Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else's aesthetics. I think you're born an artist or not. I couldn't have learned it. And I hope I never do because knowing more only encourages your limitations.

Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.

'Yeezus, ' I really love it. I think the sound of it is cool.

I'm a very visual person, and I love opening beautiful books on art or design and looking through them.

I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes.

I love design.

I remember thinking that this transformation, which I witnessed thousands of times, was an eloquent statement of the style's ability to evoke and express beauty.

The beauty of any work of art is related to the pleasure it gives us when we know it well.

The 'red-tinged flower' is far from fair, Nor do my eyes delight to see, But yon red plum which blossoms there, Is full of loveliness to me.

Humans, like flowers and animals, inhabit a form that is both functional and aesthetic.

Adoraba la música, la pintura y todas las materias desprovistas de provecho y beneficio en la sociedad de los hombres.