Quotes About Aesthetics

Maybe beauty is death, in a way, just like the decadent aesthetes used to say. It's a reminder that things are fragile, because when one thing envelopes another thing, that other thing might be overwhelmed or destroyed.

Beauty is nonconceptual. Nothing in the object directly explains it.

Some time around 1932, Adolf Loos, the noted Viennese architect, said, "There is a great difference between an urn and a chamber pot, and in this difference there is leeway for culture.

I tell you, the one thing I hate is an absolutist. I hate absolutist ideologies, I hate absolutist aesthetics, I hate absolutist theologies, they're the burden and bane of this world.

People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. (Bernard Mickey Wrangle, p 99)

The ugly may be beautiful, the pretty never.

In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one.

People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve.

The result in all these cities, from Berlin to Stalingrad, was the classic Soviet-era housing solution: mile upon mile of identical gray or brown cement blocks; cheap, poorly-constructed, with no distinguishing architectural features and lacking any aesthetic indulgence (or public facilities).

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

A horsehair sofa of uncompromising firmness sat next to two straight-backed, hard-seated chairs.

Yes, just like those flowers. There's something strained, but there's beauty in that. Something like that

Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.

Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.

It didn't occur to me that there was something decidedly odd in finding a box of razor blades aesthetically appealing. I wonder if a heroin addict loves the elegant simplicity of the needle, if a drinker romances the curve and shape of the bottle.

Black hair and blue eyes are my favorite combination.

Blue does not go with everything," Will told her. "It does not go with red, for instance." "I have a red and blue striped waistcoat," Henry interjected, reaching for the peas. "And if that isn't proof that those two colors should never be seen together under Heaven, I don't know what is.

The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.

our loyalties are to the aesthetics, not the evidence. We are seduced by the way things look, and overlook the way they function. But beauty is seldom truth, and truth is seldom beauty.

Tudo o que desejava era que as coisas fossem agradáveis e bonitas, como eram nas canções.

La belleza, según la sentimos, es algo indescriptible; jamás puede decirse lo que es ni lo que significa.

But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing—a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.

But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing...

There would be no history as we know it, no religion, no metaphysics or aesthetics as we have lived them, without an initial act of trust, of confiding, more fundamental, more axiomatic by far than any "social contract" or covenant with the postulate of the divine. This instauration of trust, this entrance of man into the city of man, is that between word and world.