Quotes About Aesthetics

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaining it.

Contemporary architecture was of necessity mediocre.

Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better.

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

Painting, n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

All colours are the friends of their neighbours and the lovers of their opposites.

Sir, when their backsides look good enough to slap, there's nothing more to do.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can stand a rude remark or a vulgar action.

Simplicity, carried to an extreme, becomes elegance.

Taste is nothing but a delicate good sense.

Good taste is the flower of good sense.

For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.

Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.

And unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are all wall-eyed.

there was even a whole section dedicated to throats and boobs, though they called it décolletage.

His friends said, Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there? and Bull said, I like it because it's ugly. All his life was in that line.

I like it because its ugly

On the wall hung a picture of an ugly old Cape Cod house. His friends said, 'Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?' and Bull said, 'I like it because it's ugly.

Let beauty be your end. Why should you mint beauty into gold? Anyway, you can't;

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two-dimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sans-serifs, and geometrics; which abstracts, transforms, translates, rotates, dilates, repeats, mirrors, groups, and regroups, is not good design if it is irrelevant.