Aesthetic Quotes - Page 3

• An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Religious, Perfect, Political

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• The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.

  Ella Maillart

  Spiritual, Moving, Intellectual

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• I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

  Clive Bell

  Trying, Degrees, Emotion

  'Art' (1914) pt. 3 ch. 3

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• Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

  Luis Barragan

  Motivational, Art, Atmosphere

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• I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do

  Pat Metheny

  Thinking, Sound

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• Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Love, Book, Imagination

  "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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• To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.

  George H. Mead

  Appreciation, Art, Attitude

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• I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.

  Edmund White

  Thinking, Technique, Sincerity

  The Review of Contemporary Fiction Intreview, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1996.

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• The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

  Clive Bell

  Art, World, Emotion

  Clive Bell (1958). “Art”, Perigee

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• The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.

  Thom Mayne

  Thinking, Ideas, Architecture

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• As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

  Seamus Heaney

  Reality, Citizens, Notes

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture”, p.17, Macmillan

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• Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

  Octavio Paz

  Beauty, Art, Games

  Octavio Paz (1991). “On Poets and Others”, p.74, Arcade Publishing

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

  Evelyn Waugh

  Expression, Desire, Crime

  Decline and Fall pt. 3, ch. 1 (1928)

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• Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.

  Roger Scruton

  Judgement, Style, Details

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• I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.

  Josef Albers

  Men, May, Ethics

  Josef Albers, Paul Overy, South Bank Centre (1994). “Josef Albers: a national touring exhibition from the South Bank Centre 1994”, Centre

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• Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beauty, Beautiful, Men

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• A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.

  David Mamet

  Theatre, May, Enlightening

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

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• The taste of the more recent accessions to the leisure class proper and of the middle and lower classes still requires a pecuniary beauty to supplement the aesthetic beauty, even in those objects which are primarily admired for the beauty that belongs to them as natural growths.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Class, Aesthetic Beauty, Growth

  Thorstein Veblen (2012). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Men, Lasts, Faces

  The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925)

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• You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly admit that I am strongly attracted by the simplicity and beauty of mathematical schemes which nature presents us. You must have felt this too: the almost frightening simplicity and wholeness of the relationship, which nature suddenly spreads out before us.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Nature, Truth, Science

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• I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.

  Deepak Chopra

  Leadership, Thinking, People

  "Deepak Chopra On Enlightened Leadership". Interview with Jenna Goudreau, www.forbes.com. January 12, 2011.

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• Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Patterns, Recognition

  Dialogues (1954) (entry for 10 June 1943)

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• We all appreciated a certain aesthetic, and with that appreciation came a certain stylized presence.

  Amber Heard

  Appreciation, Appreciated, Certain

  "Amber Heard THE RUM DIARY Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 27, 2011.

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• Fine things in wood are important, not only aesthetically, as oddities or rarities, but because we are becoming aware of the fact that much of our life is spent buying and discarding, and buying again, things that are not good. Some of us long to have at least something, somewhere, which will give us harmony and a sense of durability—I won’t say permanence, but durability—things that, through the years, become more and more beautiful, things we can leave to our children.

  James Krenov

  Life, Beautiful, Children

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• A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

  Roberto Burle Marx

  Garden, Artist, Color

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