Best 90 quotes in «aesthetic quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Ethics and aesthetics are one.

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 don't buy jewelry just for the aesthetic side.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Mars is not an aesthetic God.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.