Aesthetic Quotes - Page 4

• 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.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Tasks, May, Architecture

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

  Beatrice Wood

  Mind, Rich, Poet

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• 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.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, Principles, Goes On

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• Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Death, Design Process, Aesthetic Beauty

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• It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Government, Goal, Custodians

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• 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.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Mean, Ideas, Moral

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• 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.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Men, Appreciate, Different

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• It's for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can't afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it - a little bit of me or a lot of me, that's what's important.

  Vera Wang

  Women, Important, Dresses

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• 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.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Logic, Architecture, Formulas

  "The House: Its Origins and Evolution".

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• When I wasn't as attractive as I am now, I suffered at the hands of cruel children and their taunts until I realised that confidence and a bit of aesthetic care can overcome that.

  Johnny Vegas

  Confidence, Children, Hands

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• I think décor 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.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Thinking, Stories, Way

  "Interview", Volume 26, (p. 49), 1996.

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• Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.

  Milan Kundera

  Dream, Communication, Games

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• The aesthetic, as I understand it, is really about the way in which we understand beauty and speak and think about beauty.

  Kwame Dawes

  Thinking, Way, Speak

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Artist, Strive, Products

  Evelyn Waugh, Mark Amory (1980). “The letters of Evelyn Waugh”, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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• The aesthetic experience has to be given. And beauty is a regular experience of every person - every person who is not clinically depressed!

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Given, Persons

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In many contexts, simplicity is not an aesthetic frill.

  Elliott Sober

  Simplicity, Frills

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It would be great to do another television show that was a multi-camera because the hours are so wonderful and you can be a good mom at the same time. The problem is, there aren't a lot of multi-camera shows that I personally like. My aesthetic is more geared toward single-camera shows.

  Kaitlin Olson

  Mom, Cameras, Would Be

  "Q&A: Kaitlin Olson, Tualatin native, stars in 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'". Interview with Jake Ten Pas, www.oregonlive.com. September 15, 2010.

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• Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose, and, I daresay, an aesthetic purpose.

  Henri Poincare

  Nature, Philosophical, Science

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• Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.

  Albert Einstein

  Perfection, Simplicity, Quality

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• The concept of the public welfare is broad and inclusive ... the values it represents are spiritual as well as physical, aesthetic as well as monetary. It is within the power of the legislature to determine that the community should be beautiful as well as healthy, spacious as well as clean, well balanced as well as carefully patroled.

  William O. Douglas

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Community

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• Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it. I prefer to steer clear of anything aesthetic, so as not to set obstacles in my own way and not to have the problem of people saying: 'Ah, yes, that's how he sees the world, that's his interpretation.'

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, People, Effort

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other than wholly personal ones. Tasting a superlative Moselle wine can be an aesthetic experience no less genuine than hearing a Mozart piano concerto or seeing for the first time an original Breughel painting.

  Frank Schoonmaker

  Wine, Piano, Smell

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• Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.

  Richard Dawkins

  Beautiful, Astrology, Light

  "The Real Romance in the Stars". www.independent.co.uk. December 31, 1995.

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• Actors are embracing a new aesthetic, which is leaning more toward truthful and simple and direct, as opposed to what we would normally call sitcom acting.

  William H. Macy

  Simple, Acting, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Neil Gaiman

  Beautiful, Horrible, Intrigued

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