Best 90 quotes in «aesthetic quotes» category

Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.

Aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake.

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

Aesthetic delectation is the danger to be avoided.

Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.

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

All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.

Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.

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

Black metal - especially from the '90s - contains a certain production aesthetic that keys you into the emotive content. You feel it more intimately than, say, technical death metal, where everything is produced super-precisely.

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

Ethics and aesthetics are one.

Elephant and Piggie have a very large input. They have a distinct aesthetic taste. They like books that are philosophical. They like books that are dialogue-driven. They like books that are about issues that they live with, in their own elephantine and porcine ways.

I don't call myself an 'industrial designer,' because I'm other things. Industrial designers want to make novel things. Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.

Facing the kitsch aesthetic is the unfathomable world of myths.

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

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

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

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

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

I'm intrigued with figuring out the places [where] the horrible and the beautiful meet - that aesthetic fascinates me.

I have tried to draw the human effigy (and all the other subjects dealt with in my paintings) in an immediate and effective way without any reference to the aesthetic.

I like the concept of shooting beautiful, aesthetic, cinematographic pieces, and still allowing them to be explicit

I'm always interested in finding new aesthetic problems to deal with and challenge myself, even if the aesthetic problem is one of content.

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 personally object to the veil on aesthetic as well as other grounds; but I must admit that, for instance in the suburbs of American cities, I have often seen women attired more sloppily than our Persian women normally are.

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

In many contexts, simplicity is not an aesthetic frill.

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

It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that held and moved and stirred the beholder as sheer decoration could not.

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

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

I've always identified people's taste in music as being kind of hetero and/or homo - there's music people like because they feel like they have aesthetic similarity to it and the music they wish to create, and then there's music that represents the other, that they listen to because it represents an escape from the music that they have to make.

I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?

I would describe my aesthetic as definitely personal and harmonious with an eclectic yet bohemian sensibility.

Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical

Light has an evident, functional and aesthetic impact on our lives.

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

Mars is not an aesthetic God.

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

My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof.

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

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

Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness.

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

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

On the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry.

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.

Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.