Aesthetic Quotes - Page 18

• I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Beauty, Art, Chess

  "TIME" Magazine, March 10, 1952.

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

  Joseph Altuzarra

  Fashion, Architecture, Wells

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• Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Beauty, Song, Art

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

  Walter Isaacson

  Winning, Flaws, Innovative

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Food, Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.453, Princeton University Press

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• These are things that only dogs and women understand because we tap into the pain directly, we connect to pain directly from its source, and so it is at once brilliant and brutal and clear, like white-hot metal spraying out of a fire hose, we can appreciate the aesthetic while taking the worst of it straight in the face. Men, on the other hand, are all filters and deflectors and timed release.

  Garth Stein

  Dog, Pain, Men

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• Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms.

  Chaim Potok

  Art, Vision, Form

  Chaim Potok (2009). “My Name Is Asher Lev”, p.316, Anchor

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• There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

  A. S. Byatt

  Trying, Failing, Imagine

  "Clinging to the wreckage" by A. S. Byatt, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2002.

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• If you don't read poetry how the hell can you solve equations?

  Harvey Jackins

  Beauty, Art, Hell

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• I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me consorting with all these learned folks, as though I were their long lost brother. I guess they are unaware of the fact that I am ignorant about the whole thing.

  M. C. Escher

  Beauty, Art, Brother

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• Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

  Claude Debussy

  Music, Beauty, Art

  "Greatness: Who Makes History and Why". Book by Dean Keith Simonton, May 20, 1994.

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• It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is even prettier than the pictures themselves.

  Robert L. Devaney

  Beauty, Art, Orbit

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• At its heart, music is all higher mathematics.

  Mos Def

  Beauty, Art, Mathematics

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• I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

  J. G. Ballard

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Age of unreason". Interview With Jeannette Baxter, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2004.

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• If theory is the role of the architect, then such beautiful proofs are the role of the craftsman. Of course, as with the great renaissance artists, such roles are not mutually exclusive. A great cathedral has both structural impressiveness and delicate detail. A great mathematical theory should similarly be beautiful on both large and small scales.

  Michael Atiyah

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

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• A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Self, Joy

  Marcel Proust's preface (1910) to John Ruskin "The Bible of Amiens" translated by Marcel Proust (1904); later quoted in "Marcel Proust: On Reading Ruskin" translated by Jean Autret and Philip J. Wolfe (p. 53), 1987.

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

  Sarah Ruhl

  Defense

  Sarah Ruhl (2014). “100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater”, p.56, Macmillan

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• A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written.

  Morris Kline

  Beauty, Art, Proof

  Morris Kline (1964). “Mathematics in Western Culture”, p.546, Oxford University Press

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• But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following.

  Henri Poincare

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

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• ...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.

  Paul Simon

  Beauty, Art, Communication

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• Mathematics and art are quite different. We could not publish so many papers that used, repeatedly, the same idea and still command the respect of our colleagues.

  Antoni Zygmund

  Beauty, Art, Ideas

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• My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Snipers, Roof

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  David Mamet

  Hollywood, Sinkholes, Monasteries

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let the women play in more feminine clothes like they do in volleyball. They could, for example, have tighter shorts. Female players are pretty, if you excuse me for saying so, and they already have some different rules to men - such as playing with a lighter ball. That decision was taken to create a more female aesthetic, so why not do it in fashion?

  Sepp Blatter

  Soccer, Football, Volleyball

  "Make-up and short shorts improving women's football, says Brazilian official". www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2015.

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• A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far more than merely an aesthetic expression. And what is left of the earlier Mogul gardens in India suggests that their makers were acquainted with what lay behind the flowering of the Sufi movement in High Asia and so sought to add further dimensions to their garden scenes.

  Russell Page

  Buddhism, Men, Garden

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