Quotes About Aesthetics

A lot of my work is intelligent, a lot of the work is beautiful, but I make ugly things, too.

I'm so sick of straight men in boardshorts. It couldn't be more unattractive.

I'm always more attracted to the unattractive.

If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It's like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

Taste is the common sense of genius.

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

The greens and golds have thinned to watercolor; the sky is one scoured sweep of pale blue

Quantity is a poor measure of the artistic merits of a collection,

Feminism would have us apologize for having that reaction. It wants to replace aesthetics with politics, and to the extent it's succeeded, it's impoverished us.

Spare functional furniture, in my opinion, is the genius of 20th-century design.

I'm fairly specific about what I like to wear and looks are important to me, just like they are to everybody.

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

My initial attraction was just the beauty. The colors were so beautiful, the spheres were so nearly perfect.

I would love to meet or work with Sofia Coppola. Or Wes Anderson or Spike Jonze. I'd love to meet them. The way they film, it's all so geometric.

Spin is 'something is beautiful because we say it's beautiful.'

I am a bit O.C.D. I have a colour-coordinated bookcase. The books are arranged by the colour of the spine. It looks cool, but people come in and think I am slightly mental.