Aesthetic Quotes - Page 8

• It's not so much a philosophy as much as it is a pace. We need to be personally involved with every aspect of the records including the artwork, we want everything to have a similar aesthetic.

  Avey Tare

  Philosophy

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• The flux of life is pouring its aesthetic aspect into your eyes, your ears - and you ignore it because you are looking for your canons of beauty in some sort of frame or glass case or tradition.

  Mina Loy

  Eye, Glasses, Pouring

  Mina Loy, Maeera Shreiber, Keith Tuma (1998). “Mina Loy: woman and poet”, Natl Poetry Foundation

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• There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and shadows of people and ideas can be arranged and rearranged like stained-glass pieces in a window, or chessmen on a board.

  A. S. Byatt

  Book, Glasses, Ideas

  A S Byatt (2009). “The Children's Book”, p.119, Random House

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• My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Snipers, Roof

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.

  Donald Knuth

  Machines, Algorithms, Way

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• The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, of water. We feel poetry as we feel the closeness of a woman, or as we feel a mountain or a bay. If we feel it immediately, why dilute it with other words, which no doubt will be weaker than our feelings?

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Water, Feelings, Doubt

  "Siete noches/Seven Nights". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1980.

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• Rules of taste enforce structures of power.

  Susan Sontag

  Taste, Structure

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• Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism! You must achieve mastery over your idealism, over your virtue as well as over your vice, aesthetic mastery over everything that drives you to write in the first place - your outrage, your politics, your grief, your love!

  Philip Roth

  Art, Grief, Writing

  Philip Roth (1998). “I Married a Communist”, p.230, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.

  Charlaine Harris

  Dumb, Lust, Mind

  Charlaine Harris (2001). “Dead Until Dark: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.64, Penguin

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• These are things that only dogs and women understand because we tap into the pain directly, we connect to pain directly from its source, and so it is at once brilliant and brutal and clear, like white-hot metal spraying out of a fire hose, we can appreciate the aesthetic while taking the worst of it straight in the face. Men, on the other hand, are all filters and deflectors and timed release.

  Garth Stein

  Dog, Pain, Men

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• The best and most innovative products don't always win...(it's an) aesthetic flaw in how the universe worked

  Walter Isaacson

  Winning, Flaws, Innovative

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Food, Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.453, Princeton University Press

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• Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms.

  Chaim Potok

  Art, Vision, Form

  Chaim Potok (2009). “My Name Is Asher Lev”, p.316, Anchor

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• Having Alexei Ratmansky create a new Romeo and Juliet for The National Ballet of Canada to mark our 60th anniversary is a dream come true. His aesthetic -- steeped in the Russian school but open to contemporary sources -- is ideal for this work and for our company, which, with our classical heritage and our passion for the modern, is perfectly suited to his distinctive dance vision.

  Karen Kain

  Dream, Passion, School

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• If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.

  Asger Jorn

  Expression, Add, Painting

  "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 115), 2002.

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• I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas a moral and aesthetic nightmare whether or not the days are prosperous?

  Christopher Hitchens

  Christmas, Thinking, Austerity

  "'Tis the Season To Be Incredulous" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. December 15, 2008.

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• When does a session of The Theatre of the Oppressed end? Never - since the objective is not to close a cycle, to generate a catharsis, or to end a development. On the contrary, its objective is to encourage autonomous activity, to set a process in motion, to stimulate transformative creativity, to change spectators into protagonists. And it is precisely for these reasons that the Theatre of the Oppressed should be the initiator of changes the culmination of which is not the aesthetic phenomenon but real life.

  Augusto Boal

  Real, Creativity, Theatre

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• People hide behind the word aesthetic. They say, ‘Well, it’s just that designer’s aesthetic.’ But when you see 18 seasons in a row and not one single model outside a certain skin color…? There are people in the industry who are advocates, who support diversity. And there are people who do not. I don’t get it. Beauty is universal. These doors have to open.

  Joan Smalls

  Skin Color, Doors, People

  "The Return of the Supermodel: It's Joan Smalls" by Molly Young, www.elle.com. December 4, 2013.

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• Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.

  Barnett Newman

  Dream, Communication, Men

  Barnett Newman, John Philip O'Neill (1992). “Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.158, Univ of California Press

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• And, in the future, while the dumb show of bohemianism plays itself out in the cookie cutter shape of the politically correct martyr/victim, aesthetic terrorists will not involve themselves in the dubious rewards of celebrity. The best of them will work alone, already a part of the enemy camp, and in chameleon-like style master the fifth-column algorithms to subvert the ancient regime. We won't know them by their name but their compensation will be to affect the outcome of the planet. Until then, there's a lot of work to be done.

  Adam Parfrey

  Play, Names, Dumb

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• Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the phenomenon known as aesthetic emotion...Life on its own, without art to shape it, leaves you in confusion and chaos, but aesthetic emotion harmonizes what you know with what you feel to give you a heightened awareness and a sureness of your place in reality.

  Robert McKee

  Art, Reality, Giving

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• Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take aesthetic communication, and aesthetic pleasure, seriously. We, their customers, demand it.

  Virginia Postrel

  Real, Communication, Mba

  Virginia Postrel (2009). “The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.

  Eli Siegel

  Art, Self, Opposites

  Eli Siegel (1981). “Self and world: an explanation of aesthetic realism”, Definition Pr

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• Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of intellectual endeavour. Truly great programmers are like great poets or great mathematicians - they can achieve in a few lines what lesser mortals can only approach in three volumes

  John Naughton

  Intellectual, Three, Lines

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• Blindness to the aesthetic element in mathematics is widespread and can account for a feeling that mathematics is dry as dust, as exciting as a telephone book... Contrariwise, appreciation of this element makes the subject live in a wonderful manner and burn as no other creation of the human mind seems to do.

  Philip J. Davis

  Appreciation, Book, Dust

  Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh, Elena Anne Marchisotto (1995). “The Mathematical Experience: Study Edition”, p.185, Springer Science & Business Media

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