Quotes About Aesthetics

Great Granny Webster seemed to hate colours. Almost everything she owned was either black or dark brown.

You make beauty and it disappears, I love that.

I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

The Beautiful is always strange.

Lady Jaye and I always thought black eyes were really sexy.

It's a major job to help men and women look beautiful.

I believed in the Catholic position, the Catholic view of ethics and aesthetics, for a long time. But I wanted something not intellectual, some conviction not mental - in fact I wanted faith.

Our sound is really hard metal but looks cute, and in some parts of the song the lyrics are really cute.

The hairstyles of most Heavy Metal bands are pretty horrendous.

I had been designing for Alessi and Swid Powell and Steuben and high-end people, and people always complained, 'Michael, we'd love to buy your stuff, but it's too expensive.'

I don't like one-foot jumpers like LeBron James. It looks better jumping off two feet. Every time Michael Jordan jumped off two feet, it looked so much better.

I lust after iPods or Mini Coopers not because they're unique, but because they've been so artfully made that I couldn't imagine doing it better myself.

I like the French kind of style because it's simple and minimal. I have blonde hair and big lips, and when I do too much I think sometimes I don't look very well, you know?

I think 'Tron' is a good example of minimalism.

I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.

He could see that he had too many flowers in the room, and must add more to make it come back right again. Too many flowers was too many, but way too many was just right.

La belleza engendra pudor

Los hombres no saben por qué les satisfacen las obras de arte. No son verdaderamente entendidos, y creen descubrir innumerables excelencias en una obra, para justificar su admiración por ella, cuando el fundamento íntimo de su aplauso es un sentimiento imponderable que se llama simpatía.

I am offended only by certain sorts of wallpaper

Minimalism has a certain charm. You say, that's a bit monotonous, but by the time it's finished, you're wishing it hadn't.

Proportion is the heart of beauty.

The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak; when you're present in the current moment; when you're resonating with the excitement of this thing that you're experiencing; when you are fully alive.

This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge.