Best 90 quotes in «aesthetic quotes» category

Sometimes I grow afraid of long flights and street signs and a heartbeat Of open endings and reflections and chipped coffee mugs Of jingling keys and unmade beds and choked sobs Of crescent moons and dead flowers and small insects But most of all I am afraid //Of you// -An abusive relationship

Take delight on a woman’s pubic hair for its a signature of maturity and a secretive covenant . . . the hair signifies potent sexual energy and strength hold but also signifies virility of the animalistic tendencies and royal power . . . A woman who rejects narcissism of complete vaginal hair removal gives a signature of strength, virtuously liberated, body acceptance, and more womanhood.

Teaching is a dialogue, and it is through the process of engaging students that we see ideas taken from the abstract and played out in concrete visual form. Students teach us about creativity through their personal responses to the limits we set, thus proving that reason and intuition are not antithetical. Their works give aesthetic visibility to mathematical ideas.

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.

Theory is relevant to you because it shows you a new, simpler, and more elegant side of computers, which we normally consider to be complicated machines. The best computer designs and applications are conceived with elegance in mind. A theoretical course can heighten your aesthetic sense and help you build more beautiful systems.

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

The starry sky began to shine,when assigned night spread with its ‘moon lamp’ for all of the wistful thoughts lay,below the tormented Earth’s nocturnal light and those splendid visions caught my pounding spirits.

Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

You must never settle for someone who is not willing to swim in your tormented seas -You are worthy of more than they are willing to give

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.

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

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

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.

The ride to Alicante had been like something out of a dream, or a cheesy romance novel. The two of them astride white stallions, galloping across the countryside, charging across emerald meadows and through a forest the color of flames. Isabelle's hair streamed behind her like a river of ink, and Simon had even managed not to fall off his horse--never a foregone conclusion.

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.

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.

Ethics and aesthetics are one.

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 don't buy jewelry just for the aesthetic side.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

In many contexts, simplicity is not an aesthetic frill.

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.

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'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.

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

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

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

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

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

Mars is not an aesthetic God.

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

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.