Best 90 quotes in «aesthetic quotes» category

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

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

Ethics and aesthetics are one.

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.

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.

Facing the kitsch aesthetic is the unfathomable world of myths.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Mars is not an aesthetic God.

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?

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

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

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

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.

My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof.

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

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

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

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

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

Newton, for instance, attempted to comprehend the diversities of the universe with a single system of mathematical laws, the objectivity, sobriety and logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which, while accepting variations and adjustments according to climate and other needs, could be applied universally.

Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness.

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

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

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

To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.

There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.'

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

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

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

We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.

We all appreciated a certain aesthetic, and with that appreciation came a certain stylized presence.