Quotes About Aesthetics

Opera aperta is a polemical book, in marked conflict with the Crocean aesthetics that dominated the Italian academic world in the early sixties.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a moment's silence, Perhaps more so.

To love beauty is to see light.

The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment's pause, "Perhaps more so.

The beautiful is just as useful as the useful.

Let us remark, by the way, that the hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. This hatred would involve the hatred of the arts.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful. ... perhaps more so.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a pause, More so, perhaps.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful.

Built in the seventies, I'd guess, back when just about everything was ugly. There

Beautiful things may be admired, if not loved.

We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it is a symmetry whose rules are unknown.

What I'm against is a sport that rewards mass for the sake of mass to the exclusion of all other physical properties of the physique. In other words, there comes a point where, if you keep adding muscle mass, the human body loses its beauty, shape and form. That's what I'm against.

the history of ethics and aesthetics,—all these and many other matters remain obscure.

I love books. Not just for what they contain. I love them as objects too, as ever-present reminders of what they contain, and because they are beautiful.

It sounded just as he'd always imagined it would: like calligraphy, if calligraphy were written in honey.

beautiful in a way that made beauty hideous.

Religion makes us poor judges of art.

In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from binding.

We think of photography as the intersection of science and art.

Beauty is harsh.

oh, come on, you must know 'Leave It Black.' I see a black door and I'm extremely satisfied with how it looks?

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.