Aesthetics Quotes

....it seems to me that a pleasurable Contemplation of Beauty has certainly an immeasurably greater value than mere Consciousness of Pleasure.

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.

I think that's what art is: art is communication made in the hope that interesting miscommunications will arise.

In my box of sound bites there are no jackhammers, no snowmobiles, no Jet Skis, no children wailing. Music but no Muzak.It's my box. Put what you want in yours.

[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,

Tensurrealism creates actual and non-compromised reality, jamboree, fervor, fascination, poetics of an active enthusiasm, interludium, lyrical practice, active happiness.

In the psychology of aesthetics, there is a name for the moment between the anxiety of confronting something new and the satisfying click of understanding it. It is called an 'aesthetic aha.

there's something wrong with any art that makes a woman all bust

...fiction is as useful as truth, for giving us matter, upon which to exercise the judgment of value.

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

Appreciate the aesthetic and creativity of the nature and be grateful for being part of it.

Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.

We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.

In a single wave of meaning the triumphant purity of being.

Against the subtle cries of nature, I found peace. I found home. I found the past and the future strung into a present that demanded to be lived.

All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.

People who insist upon dressing casually also want to think casually. And in a fallen world, thinking casually means being wrong more often than not.

No man sings as beautifully as when his song is accompanied by a woman’s voice.

I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life.

The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters.

What is good is also divine. Queer as it sounds, that sums up my ethics. Only something supernatural can express the Supernatural.

Everything good is good because of the love it contains.

Our sole concern with the long dead is aesthetic

Aestheticism is the garbage of intuitive feeling.

The future will look futuristic only because we will be trying to make it look futuristic.

We are living in a moment where we have broken the equilibrium of the planet. We are not paying attention to our intuitive side. We only pay attention to our reason. We have become an urban animal

There is none more beautiful than the lover of beauty.