Aesthetic Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• My visual landscape as a child was the inside of a lot of these old churches. And the Baroque drama of the things was what I was first engaging with artwise. I'm much more attracted to the aesthetic of religious iconography than the actual religious side. The passion and the blood and the violence and the gaudy side of it I find really fascinating.

  Florence Welch

  Religious, Children, Drama

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• The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and trying stuff out on stage, having fun with it, and not taking it too seriously. If I had a ballgown at home, I'd wear it onstage. If I found something in a charity shop, I'd wear it. That's where it grew from - just wanting to play dress-up.

  Florence Welch

  Fun, Home, Thinking

  "The unstoppable rise of Florence Welch". Interview with John Harris, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2010.

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• Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.

  Romola Garai

  Vintage, Lovely, Underwear

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• The fans, the vampire groupies, love the idea of this androgynous, preternatural figure stalking the night, and craving aesthetic pleasure just as he craves blood, wearing only the best velvet clothes, and savoring red roses.

  Anne Rice

  Night, Blood, Ideas

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• A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can deliver. The Romantic desire for a new mythology... gives the artist and his task in the world the consciousness of a new consecration. He is something like a 'secular saviour' for his creations are expected to achieve on a small scale the propitiation of disaster for which an unsaved world hopes.

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Religious, Art, Giving

  "Truth and Method". Book by Hans-Georg Gadamer (p. 76), 1960.

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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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