Aesthetic Quotes (94)
Quotes and citations about aesthetic
I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one... view
By: Josef Albers
I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story... view
By: Pedro Almodovar
At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel... view
By: Rudolf Arnheim
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books... view
By: Gaston Bachelard
Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being... view
By: Luis Barragan
I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic... view
By: Clive Bell
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind... view
By: Clive Bell
A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now... view
By: John Desmond Bernal
A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately... view
By: Yancy Butler
The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder... view
By: Helena Christensen
And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me... view
By: Patricia Clarkson
There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake... view
By: Bill Conti
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality... view
By: Richard Courant
Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity... view
By: Stanley Crouch
I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place... view
By: Stanley Crouch
When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it... view
By: John Cusack
The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing... view
By: Edward Dmytryk
That said, we don't approach these improvements as only a surface aesthetic. The producers and we think that these men are helped with their inner needs when they pay attention to their externals... view
By: Kyan Douglas
There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman... view
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad... view
By: Arthur Erickson
The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself... view
By: Arthur Erickson
Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health... view
By: Robert Evans
Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees.. view
By: R. Buckminster Fuller
It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being... view
By: Hans-Georg Gadamer
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state... view
By: John Kenneth Galbraith
The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally... view
By: Stephen Gardiner
I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration... view
By: Genevieve Gorder
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art... view
By: Remy de Gourmont
The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval... view
By: Franz Grillparzer
The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens... view
By: Eduard Hanslick
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note... view
By: Seamus Heaney
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation... view
By: Hans Hofmann
To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences... view
By: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics... view
By: Edward Hopper
In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture... view
By: Arne Jacobsen
One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury... view
By: Anish Kapoor
I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise... view
By: Leo Kottke
Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future... view
By: Wayne Kramer
I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic... view
By: Spike Lee
Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient... view
By: Aldo Leopold