Quotes About Aesthetes

Las teorías sirven para irritar a los filisteos, para seducir a los estetas y para que los demás se rían

Is anyone still so naive as to imagine that theories are meant to be believed? Theories serve to annoy philistines, appeal to aesthetes, and amuse the rest of us.

Theories serve to annoy philistines, appeal to aesthetes, and amuse the rest of us.

If your quest is for a truth that defies rhetoric, perhaps you ought to study political economy or systems analysis and abandon Shakespeare to the aesthetes and the groundlings, who combined to elevate him in the first place.

Aesthetes have it all over intellectuals in one very important respect: You'll rarely catch us hustling anyone off to the nearest guillotine. We're too busy trying to make the world more beautiful. Our hands are stained with ink and paint, not blood.

Probably the best way to kill aesthetes is with valuable objets d'art so that in death they can still get mad over an act of vandalism.