Aesthetic Quotes - Page 5

• Beauty has never been an important topic in the writings of the major psychologists. In fact, for Jung, aesthetics is a weak, early stage of development. He follows the Germanic view that ethics is more important than aesthetics, and he draws a stark contrast between the two. Freud may have written about literature a bit, but an aesthetic sensitivity is not part of his psychology.

  James Hillman

  Writing, Views, Two

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• How women dressed every single day back in those days is seen as kind of incredible - it must have taken so much time. But there's something so romantic about that because it's so different to how we dress. That aesthetic is so appealing, it's not what we're used to nowadays.

  Lily Collins

  Taken, Dresses, Different

  "Lily Collins on Her Glamorous New Look for 'The Last Tycoon'". Interview with Olivia Fleming, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 30, 2016.

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• Whether you're talking about political borders or aesthetic divisions (and clearly, the political ones have much more tragic consequences), it seems like once they are created, we want to patrol them, enforce them.

  Matthea Harvey

  Talking, Political, Borders

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an art form at all. Like language, it is a medium in which works of art (among other things) are made.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Art, Lying

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.130, Macmillan

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• So I swear to God, I took one year where I just said, This year, I'm just going to cop to it and say to people, 'Okay, where did we meet?' But it just got worse. People were more offended. Every now and then, someone will give me context, and I'll say, 'Thank you for helping me.' But I piss more people off. You get this thing, like, 'You're being egotistical. You're being conceited.' But it's a mystery to me, man. I can't grasp a face and yet I come from such a design/aesthetic point of view. I am going to get it tested.

  Brad Pitt

  Conceited, Men, Views

  "Brad Pitt: A Life So Large" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. May 20, 2013.

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• There can be no reasonable right to live on sidewalks. Society needs order, and hence has a right to a minimally civilized ambience in public spaces. Regarding the homeless, this is not merely for aesthetic reasons because the anesthetic is not merely unappealing. It presents a spectacle of disorder and decay that becomes a contagion.

  George Will

  Order, Space, Needs

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• For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  World, Justified, Existence

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.163, Vintage

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• Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

  Pablo Picasso

  Magic, World, Strange

  Anne Baldassari, Pablo Picasso, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1997). “Picasso and photography: the dark mirror”, Flammarion-Pere Castor

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• Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.

  Daniel Tammet

  Motivation, Inspiration, Shapes

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• I must pack my short lifer full of interesting events and creative activity. Philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. I intend to do everything possible to broaden my experiences and allow myself to reach the fullest development. Then, and before physical deterioration obtrudes, I shall go on some last wilderness trip to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.

  Everett Ruess

  Philosophy, Short Life, Interesting

  Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”

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• Behind the aesthetic form lies the repressed harmony of sensuousness and reason

  Herbert Marcuse

  Lying, Harmony, Reason

  Herbert Marcuse (2015). “Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud”, p.144, Beacon Press

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• Each season I strive to design a forward-thinking and effortless collection with a very clean minimalist aesthetic.

  Francisco Costa

  Thinking, Design, Clean

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• Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It's not even clear if catching fish is actually the point.

  John Gierach

  Hands, Fishing, Poetic

  John Gierach (2010). “Dances With Trout”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• Punk can be a mental ghetto.  People get into it and make all these rules and pretty soon they're worse than born again Christians and have stupid three hour conversation about things like, which band is a sellout and is straight edge cool or un-cool and it's just completely idiotic.  So punk has taught me the aesthetic of the outsider, which is great, but it's also taught me not to get involved in petty little cults.

  Jesse Michaels

  Christian, Stupid, Ghetto

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• The Ilan-Lael Foundation is an arts education foundation celebrating nature and the aesthetic of the built environment for its ability to help us see ourselves and our world in new ways.

  James T. Hubbell

  Art, Our World, Way

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• Too much of what passes for design now is theater. It's one thing to be eccentric- and by the way, most eccentrics tend to be rather well-educated people - and quite another to be a faddist, by which I mean someone who tries to conjure a totally foreign aesthetic in a misplaced environment.

  Albert Hadley

  Mean, People, Design

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• I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that we completely forget about time and anxiety.

  Don Cupitt

  Anxiety, Action, Moral

  Don Cupitt (2010). “Theology's Strange Return”, p.5, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Most of Marx's predictions have failed to materialize, and his labor theory of value and other ideas have been proven wrong. Marx failed to recognize the incentive system built into the capitalist model - consumer choice and the profit motive of the entrepreneur. The irony is that capitalism, not socialism or Marxism, that has liberated the worker from the chains of poverty, monopoly, war, and oppression, and has better achieved Marx's vision of a millennium of hope, peace, abundance, leisure, and aesthetic expression for the 'full' human being.

  Mark Skousen

  War, Expression, Ideas

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• Satre found atheism 'cruel', Camus 'dreadful', and Nietzsche 'maddening'. Atheists who consistently try to live without God tend to commit suicide or go insane. Those who are inconsistent live on the ethical or aesthetic shadow of Christian truth while they deny the reality that made the shadow.

  Norman Geisler

  Christian, Suicide, Atheist

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• Don't forget that costumes, like dreams, are symbolic communication. Dreams teach us that a language for everything exists - for every object, every color worn, every clothing detail. Hence, costumes provide an aesthetic objectification that helps to tell the character's story.

  Federico Fellini

  Dream, Communication, Character

  Federico Fellini, Bert Cardullo (2006). “Federico Fellini: Interviews”, p.164, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There is an aesthetic excitement about painting which is one of the most beautiful experiences that can be. Put things down while you feel that joy.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Beautiful, Joy, Painting

  Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

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• There are few humanities that could surpass in discipline, in beauty, in emotional and aesthetic satisfaction, those humanities which are called mathematics, and the natural sciences.

  Robert Watson-Watt

  Emotional, Discipline, Humanity

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

  Erika Lust

  Beautiful, Explicit

  "The future of female-led porn". Interview with Leah Sinclair, www.dazeddigital.com. April 15, 2015.

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• The best stroked putt in a lifetime does not bring the aesthetic satisfaction of a perfectly hit wood or iron shot. There is nothing to match the whoosh and soar, the almost magical flight of a beautifully hit drive or 5-iron.

  Al Barkow

  Golf, Iron, Doe

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• In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold weather and rain.... the demand for goods is widely influenced by metaphysical, religious, and ethical considerations, by aesthetic value judgments, by customs, habits, prejudice, tradition, changing fashions, and many other things.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Religious, Fashion, Rain

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.290, Lulu Press, Inc

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