Best 90 quotes in «aesthetic quotes» category

Ethics and aesthetics are one.

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.

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.

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

Facing the kitsch aesthetic is the unfathomable world of myths.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

Mars is not an aesthetic God.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.'

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

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.

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

We can tolerate great diversity in our aesthetic beliefs, but we can't tolerate much diversity in our moral beliefs.

What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed.

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

Which even though we do have a very visual aesthetic and identity, we love it when people make their own videos to the music.

We have defined art as the life form and aesthetic art as the life renewal: the stimulating, animating, agitating, inspiring, inspirational, fermenting, fascinating fanaticising, explosive and outrageous: the renewal of the unknown.