Aesthetic Quotes

It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.

Behind the aesthetic form lies the repressed harmony of sensuousness and reason

I don't think that just because a lot of my music has a quieter aesthetic; [it] excludes me from achieving that in a live setting, from being dangerous or something.

Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.

The Ilan-Lael Foundation is an arts education foundation celebrating nature and the aesthetic of the built environment for its ability to help us see ourselves and our world in new ways.

Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according to relevance or irrelevance.

After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.

Once you train you develop your own aesthetic and your confidence. So, I think as I grow I'm learning how to be a singer. I'm training my voice and being on stage and singing and dancing.

My first girlfriend, when I was about 18, was a fashion designer, and my sister was a fashion designer as well. I've always been into shopping, and I've always been very aesthetic, in a sense.

Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.

I don't buy jewelry just for the aesthetic side.

I typically go for a more classic aesthetic, though I like to contrast that with bold statement pieces throughout my house.

With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.

Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic.

The aesthetic, as I understand it, is really about the way in which we understand beauty and speak and think about beauty.

It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded.

I'm kind of still down with Virg Woolf on this one: "women must kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have been 'killed' into art."

I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.

Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.

The Art Deco movement, architecture from that period and sort of the industrial aesthetic from that period. Art Deco meets tribal kind of thing. All that is my primal inspiration.

The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.

I think that there is an air of experience and aesthetic sophistication that weaves in with the amateur aspects of the film [Dream of Life]; it gives the film a certain elegance.

The aesthetic experience has to be given. And beauty is a regular experience of every person - every person who is not clinically depressed!

The collection under my name is an exciting opportunity to really express my own aesthetic and connect with a very different consumer.

Dramas need to have a certain aesthetic that comedy just doesn't really seem to need to have.

Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it's very important for the spirit and therefore the health.

Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.

You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values.

Being dead is the most airtight defense of one's own aesthetic.

We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed your organs of fancy.

Facing the kitsch aesthetic is the unfathomable world of myths.

I was also always interested in the aesthetic realm - architecture and that kind of stuff - but music was my first love.

I'm not interested in doing the same kind of picture over and over again. I pose problems for myself. Sometimes they are aesthetic problems and sometimes they are logistical problems.

Okay, a truly great song is a song that makes its own aesthetic intentions clear and then lives up to them and exceeds them in an interesting way. Alright?

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction.

Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.

The wine itself has aesthetic value; but what it is for a wine to have aesthetic value cannot be understood without making reference to the experience to tasting it

I have always considered the aesthetic of a project, including press photos, as a means to further the message of the art itself.

The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it does not entertain you it is a bad novel.

The best and most innovative products don't always win...(it's an) aesthetic flaw in how the universe worked

Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes.

My aesthetic is probably closer to a 15-year-old's than my dad's, but I get his conviction.

Of course it would depend on the project, but I don't think I could ever separate myself from my aesthetic.

O' melancholy, hectic chill for human soul, herewith dismal presence, any spirit does descent.

There was a product which seemed attractive, expensive, portable, beautiful and simple. Everybody talked about its beauty but they bought it for it's simplicity.

Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible.

I love deeply and admire the beauties of life and its expression in many different art forms. I am an aesthetic philosopher.

Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience.