Quotes About Aesthetics

I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false

In the old days, books had awful covers and marvelous content; nowadays, the opposite happens.

What poets must seem to display, besides the objects imitated, is a beautiful negligence.

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

Aesthetic thinking emerges at the neutral point between technics and religion, at the moment of the division of primitive magical unity: this is not a phase but, rather, a permanent reminder of the rupture of the unity of the magical mode of being and a search for a future unity.

estamos en un ciclo nuevo caracterizado por una relativa desdiferenciación de las esferas económicas y estéticas, por la desregulación de las distinciones entre lo económico y lo estético, la industria y el estilo, la moda y el arte, el pasatiempo y la cultura, lo comercial y lo creativo, la cultura de masas y la alta cultura: desde este momento, en las economías de la hipermodernidad estas esferas se hibridan, se mezclan, se cortocircuitan, se interpenetran.

Dinâmica dos excessos e amplificações, redobramento dos artifícios, preciosidade ostentatória, o vestuário de moda da testemunho de que já se está na era moderna da sedução, da estética da personalidade e da sensualidade.

Architecture completes nature.

En una bandada de blancas palomas, un cuervo negro añade más belleza incluso que el candor de un cisne

Las ciudades desiertas o desenterradas son incomparablemente más bellas que las vivas.

The Russian drove. New York turned in his seat to make sure I wasn't peeking. He should have been a surfer. His face was full of masculine prettiness and immensely likeable. Which, by horror's law of inverted aesthetics, made me sure we were being taken to our deaths.

What is the great passion of your life?" I asked. "Beauty," he replied without hesitation.

The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.

The white room is an interior to be made devoid of any specific sensualism emanated by objects. Ultimately it is classic white canvas expanded into three-dimensional space.

Encourage the beautiful, for the useful encourages itself.

I call the Classical what is healthy and the Romantic what is sick. - Goethe in 1829

Art is never didactic, does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Good architecture lets nature in.

Beauty is visible music....

One should either be a work of Art, or wear a work of Art.

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

In fact, why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?

Nerd truth. Comic Sans absolutely messes up everything it touches.