Aesthetic Quotes - Page 12

• For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm taking myself too seriously, but every artist should consider himself Picasso. Otherwise, you're doing yourself an injustice.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Artist, Acting, Crafts

  "Ribisi Rising" by Sandra Schulman, dishmag.com.

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• Aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake.

  Noah Kerner

  Design, Good Design

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• I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.

  Zack Snyder

  Thinking, Helping, Natural

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• Of course it would depend on the project, but I don't think I could ever separate myself from my aesthetic.

  Zack Snyder

  Thinking, Projects, Depends

  Interview with Daniel Barna, www.askmen.com.

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• My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.

  Mike White

  Character, Compassion, Trying

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• Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names.

  Calvin Seerveld

  Beach, Art, Children

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• There's something about fear and aesthetic that go hand in hand.

  Christopher Bollen

  Hands, Hand In Hand

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Asking, Reason, Human Bondage

  W. Somerset Maugham (2017). “Of Human Bondage”, p.470, Open Road Media

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• We must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and esthetic values as we now give to science, to invention, to practical organization. One without the other is impotent.

  Lewis Mumford

  Expression, Organization, Giving

  "Values for Survival". Essay by Lewis Mumford, 1946.

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• Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. Camp doesn't reverse things. It doesn't argue that the good is bad, or the bad is good. What it does is to offer for art, and life, a different - a supplementary - set of standards.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Axes, Ordinary

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Beauty, Faces, Admire

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• The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a superior utility in the aesthetic respect; but it is not unusual to find a well-bred book-lover insisting that the clumsier product is also more serviceable as a vehicle of printed speech.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Book, Excellence, Speech

  Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.88, M.E. Sharpe

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• The changing styles are the expression of a restless search for something which shall commend itself to our aesthetic sense; but as each innovation is subject to the selective action of the norm of conspicuous waste, the range within which innovation can take place is somewhat restricted. The innovation must not only be more beautiful, or perhaps oftener less offensive, than that which it displaces, but it must also come up to the accepted standard of expensiveness.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Beautiful, Fashion, Expression

  Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.93, M.E. Sharpe

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• The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Possession, Objects

  Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.71, M.E. Sharpe

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• The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.

  Robert Schumann

  Art, Principles, Materials

  Robert Schumann (1983). “On Music and Musicians”, p.44, Univ of California Press

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

  Harvey Jackins

  Beauty, Art, Hell

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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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• 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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• For though, in nature, depth and height
  Are equally held infinite:
  In poetry, the height we know;
  'Tis only infinite below.

  Jonathan Swift

  Beauty, Art, Depth

  Jonathan Swift (1841). “The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe. -London, Washbourne 1841”, p.654

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• How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat. Nature is full of genius. Full of the divinity. So that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beauty, Art, Stars

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.356, New York Review of Books

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• We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we. The most distinct and beautiful statements of any truth must take at last the mathematical form. We might so simplify the rules of moral philosophy, as well as of arithmetic, that one formula would express them both.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Material Faith: Thoreau on Science”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.

  Steven Weinberg

  Beauty, Art, Groups

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