Aesthetic Quotes

Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.

There's no specific aesthetic other than a sense of the beautiful itself, I suppose.

Which even though we do have a very visual aesthetic and identity, we love it when people make their own videos to the music.

We worship the aesthetic, but we do not have faith in it.

The superhero aesthetic is all about the human form and showing the body, whether they be female or male.

What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed.

I like simple, I like quality, and I like less. Do I like a certain aesthetic? Yeah.

In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.

There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

I've always been a massive Beastie Boys fan, so if you look at their style aesthetic on Check Your Head, that was the headspace I was in for a minute. Whatever that was, that was me.

[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.

The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.

Women are less aesthetic than men.

You just have to have the right gear and a few people to put you in motion with a good aesthetic and the film will take care of itself.

All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic, material, and spiritual life.

If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.

It's not so much a philosophy as much as it is a pace. We need to be personally involved with every aspect of the records including the artwork, we want everything to have a similar aesthetic.

I like the 50s, party-movie aesthetic of the beach. I'm not really into modern-day beach.

My biggest thing is to teach not to focus on the aesthetic. It's really about who you are, and the human being, that makes you beautiful.

Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness.

My paintings and sculptures, at first glance, may appear to be purely aesthetic; closer up, they are not. They hold a feeling of tentativeness, combined with a sense of arrival.

A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success.

I had always wanted to expand to beauty, but I knew I wanted to be able to translate my design aesthetic in an authentic way.

There's something about fear and aesthetic that go hand in hand.

I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas a moral and aesthetic nightmare whether or not the days are prosperous?

I always just been a fan of the music... and the aesthetic only in an abstract sense.

An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy expulsion and excommunication.

I feel like a lot of my aesthetic was in response to feeling the awfulness and cheapness of that [ the 70'th].

Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.

I'm not going to say I'll never rock with a band, because I'm too much of a fan of the aesthetic of a great band. But a girl group? Not again.

I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that we completely forget about time and anxiety.

The idea of recontextualizing images from different eras to express larger ideas about modern times was very exciting to me. That archival aesthetic is the foundation of my filmmaking style.

In many contexts, simplicity is not an aesthetic frill.

I love to read theories without ever using them when working... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also true in reverse.

Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.

Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.

To live well is to live in harmony with ourselves, others and nature, and that idea of harmony is, of course, an aesthetic one.

The connection between romantic politics and aesthetics is plain in Schiller's and Novalis's concept of the aesthetic or poetic state.

The aesthetic dimension of the ideal state comes out in the idea of harmony, which is the classical idea of beauty as "concinnitas" or "unity-in-variety".

If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.

Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.

For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.

I am a person who holds the aesthetic high. I have suits made in Savile Row.

Material Girl is about having your own personal style, and my personal style reflects the brand's aesthetic.

My aesthetic is about simplicity, elegance, and comfort, whether that is interpreted in a man's suit or a track suit.

The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.