Quotes About Aesthetics

Ah, yes,' said Poirot. He was reflecting, and not for the first time, that seen from the back, shorts were becoming to very few of the female sex. He shut his eyes in pain.

There is beauty in the least beautiful of things.

Interaction design isn't merely a matter of aesthetic choice; rather, it is based on an understanding of users and cognitive principles.

Acknowledge beauty when you see it. Even if its appearance disturbs you, surely you can admire the skill that went into its design.

Jefferson loved order, symmetry, and balance, and there was no place on the mountaintop more orderly, symmetrical, and balanced than the garden,

Truly, it was beautiful to watch. Cruel, too - I admitted that. But what was beauty without a little cruelty at its heart?

According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.

One of my pet peeves, one of my obsessions, is litter.

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

I am not fond of lengthy descriptions of phony artworks.

Everything I choose to photograph, I think is beautiful.

Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.

A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.

I don't like gimmicky pictures; I've always hated them. I like pictures that are very clear and clean, whether you're a great street photographer - somebody like Friedlander or Winogrand or Cartier-Bresson - or whether you're a portraitist, like Irving Penn.

Bruce Weber is an amazing photographer, and Carine Roitfeld's style - and everything she does - is gorgeous.

I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting.

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.

We really care about photography at 'Vanity Fair.'

My directors of photography light my films, but the colours of the sets, furnishings, clothes, hairstyles - that's me. Everything that's in front of the camera, I bring you.

I like to get rid of things; I don't collect many things. But I do keep great photography and art books.

I'm a great looker at pictures and paintings, and so forth. That's what I look for - a kind of formal beauty. I want that in my photography. It isn't always what we conventionally think of as beauty.

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.