Quotes About Aesthetics

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

Most architects say: I want to use this type of glass, even if it's too reflective or doesn't let enough light in. However, the use of a certain type of glass might change the comfort level.

I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.

I like beauty to be a bit edgy, not typical. For me, the only rule is looking good.

I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.

The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.

Only ugliness is obscene.

My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

I think a beautiful product that doesn't work very well is ugly.

The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.

I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.

I know that if I were to take ugly photographs, no one would be interested in looking at them.

My interpretation of the word 'ugly'... I like ugly beauty. That can happen. In France, we have phrase 'jolie laide.' We like certain women who are not pretty or cute - it's the opposite in France of pretty. It's more strange and interesting.

Nobody wants an ugly book.

American products are marvels of production and functionality, but were unnecessarily and unbearably ugly, noisy smelly and offensive.

There are few plants that are ugly. It's how you use them that may not be pretty.

You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.

I've always loved slightly ugly shoes. Or even very ugly shoes.

I can't stand jelly shoes. They're ugly and not comfortable.

Digital books are still painfully ugly and weirdly irritating to interact with. They look like copies of paper, but they can't be designed or typeset in the same way as paper, and however splendid the cover images may look on a hi-res screen, they're still images rather than physical things.

We knew that iMac was fast; we didn't need to make it ugly.

I love the beige, tan, stucco world where the sun bleaches things out to the point that it can look somewhat ugly.

I think that a lot of us subconsciously would like to live in a world in which good things were beautiful and bad things were ugly. But that's not how the world works.