Quotes About Aesthetics

For me, it doesn't matter how difficult something is, it doesn't matter how impressive it is, it's what sounds best that really counts.

I'm very proud of Soviet aesthetics.

Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the buildings themselves.

A lot of people don't get it, but I design from the inside out so that the finished product looks inevitable somehow. I think it's important to create spaces that people like to be in, that are humanistic.

It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years.

I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.

With small spaces in particular you have to really follow the rule that if it's not absolutely beautiful or absolutely functional, then get rid of it.

Spaghetti Junction is the most beautiful thing you've ever seen at night.

In Spain, playing beautifully is what counts, even if you lose.

Knowing beauty is not what can be described but felt, upon looking at something beautiful.

How can you love art, beauty, poetry, and hate life? That's like saying you love the ocean but hate water.

What is the beauty of a thing if others do not take pleasure in it.

I love deeply and admire the beauties of life and its expression in many different art forms. I am an aesthetic philosopher.

Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

Normative Economics is like religion without the aesthetics.

On the one hand, I try to define myself and behave officially as a no-nonsense hyperrealist ferreting out the role of chance; on the other, I have no qualms indulging in all manner of personal superstitions. Where do I draw the line? The answer is aesthetics.

It took me an entire lifetime to find out what my generator is. It is: We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract. Everything good (aesthetics, ethics) and wrong (Fooled by Randomness) with us seems to flow from it.

A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion—in other words, the amount of downside he is exposed to. To sum him up, Nero believed in erudition, aesthetics, and risk taking—little else.

To understand progress: all places we call ugly are both man-made and modern, never natural or historical.

We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract. Everything good (aesthetics, ethics) and wrong (Fooled by Randomness) with us seems to flow from it.

Well, at least the music was pretty.

Le beau est toujours bizarre

L'étude du beau est un duel où l'artiste crie de frayeur avant d'être vaincu.

L'idée que l'homme se fait du beau s'imprime dans tout son ajustement, chiffonne ou roidit son habit, arrondit ou aligne son geste, et même pénètre subtilement, à la longue, les traits de son visage. L'homme finit par ressembler à ce qu'il voudrait être.