Aesthetics Quotes

The goal changes from the general to the individual from need to wish, from ethics to aesthetics.

It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making.

Cycling is based so much on form, on aesthetics, on class - the way you carry yourself on the bike, the sort of technique you have.

I'm not giving up on my work. I'm still trying to challenge people's aesthetics and myself.

Whenever there's a change with Jazz & its aesthetics, it's almost always reflected with a change in the culture.

I'm not creating art that starts with politics or starts with ethics. I feel I am a conceptual artist because my art is more concerned with epistemology than ethics or politics or even aesthetics.

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.

Art shouldn't be only the aesthetics we hang on the wall, but a dynamic to shape the society.

At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes, or of one's childhood, or of a storm at sea.

To me there is an intimate relationship between austerity and more lush aesthetics. They're two faces of the same coin.

In fact, the environmental crisis is related to the crisis of aesthetics, crisis of social cohesion and the crisis of spiritual values.

Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular.

Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings.

Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

My favorite form is the short story. From an aesthetics stand point you really have to pare down to the bone. You can't write a throw-away scene.

It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.

Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.

I like the aesthetics of the Church.

This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice.

I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those are an important part of my childhood and my identity.

If you come at movies with your own sense of morality and not your own sense of aesthetics, I think you're screwed. I think that's not a way to look at movies.

Joe Wright is incredible and I'm a huge admirer of his work in general, but specifically his aesthetics and poeticism.

The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and power chords.

Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics.

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

The Indians have such strong traditions and aesthetics, and the people are beautiful, as are their goods.

Domination has its own aesthetics, and democratic domination has its democratic aesthetics.

[I'm concerned with] aesthetics and this idea of how the passage between life and death goes. I can visually present that by borrowing this Buddhist statue.

I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.

For women, I take inspiration from strong women with good aesthetics and integrity, and a little tomboy influence.

My role is to find strategic insights as to where design can have the most business impact. A designer can bring a viewpoint of not just aesthetics, but economics and usage.

Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.

Theater and music are both collaborative media, and I think they're best when they combine different people's visions and aesthetics.

Television is coitus interruptus brought into aesthetics.

I always try to appreciate the most fleeting moments. The idea of the acrobats constantly tumbling and trying to adjust - I think that is what we do with aesthetics. It is a cyclical rhythm

Zen is not morality, it is aesthetics. It does not impose a code of morality. it does not give you any commandments: do this, don't do that.

Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.

This was in the sense that if Dada was reacting to the morality and aesthetics of pre-WWI, then we were very much a reaction to the pomposity of rock that existed within music at that time.

Despite the fact that I'm not highly skilled in any visual art, aesthetics have always played a strong role in my art, including my first albums.

I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.

A movie tends to box you in, at least as far as the aesthetics. You have an incredibly kinetic experience, which is the joy of cinema.

He had never believed that spirituality had to be anemic or aesthetic.

Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all.

A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty

The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.

There is a sort of aesthetic poverty about conservatism

Your skin has a memory.In ten, twenty, thirty years from now, your skin will show the results ofhow it was treated today.So treat it kindly and with respect.