Quotes About Aesthetics

La belleza característica del dandi consiste sobre todo en la frialdad que se dimana de la inquebrantable resolución de no conmoverse;

Mikä ei ole aavistuksen verran epämuotoista vaikuttaa yhdentekevältä; - tästä seuraa että säännöttömyys, toisin sanoen odottamaton, yllätyksellinen ja hämmästyttävä ovat oleellinen ja tunnuspiirteinen osa kauneutta.

de la belleza realzada por el vestuario.

Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty. — Charles Baudelaire

Style is important. Many people scream the truth but without style it is helpless.

You listen to something like 'Beast Mode,' and it's almost like looking at a pretty painting.

I love the idea of modern art in a home that isn't totally modern. There's a certain energy that comes out of that juxtaposition.

I'm really a fighter against modernism equaling brutalism.

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

I think as someone who collects beautiful things from the past, the thing that I miss the most about modernism and the things I lament about the past are everyday things that you would use were made more beautifully.

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

It appears to be monumental only because it's art.

Lighting is everything. It creates mood and has an emotional effect on you.

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.

I'm interested in beauty more than anything else.

I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world.

It is difficult to see why lace should be so expensive; it is mostly holes.

Schönheit liegt im Auge des Betrachters.

I can't imagine a more aesthetically offensive item of footwear than Crocs. That little strap! I shudder. ...I know Crocs are affordable. Well, so are Converse and lots of other brands that don't look like hooves.

The work is at such a high level and is so well executed, it really is a matter of taste... [Source: Project Runway — but consider, applied to the theme of book reviews, it seems apropos!]

It can be argued, for instance, that war is grotesque. But in truth war is also beauty... Like a killer forest fire, like cancer under a microscope, any battle or bombing raid or artillery barrage has the aesthetic purity of absolute moral indifference- a powerful, implacable beauty- and a true war story will tell the truth about this, though the truth is ugly

You hate it, yes, but your eyes do not. Like a killer forest fire, like cancer under a microscope, any battle or bombing raid or artillery barrage has the aesthetic purity of absolute moral indifference—a powerful, implacable beauty—and a true war story will tell the truth about this, though the truth is ugly. To

For beauty to work, there must be a surface capable of receiving the wound.