Aesthetic Quotes - Page 8

• There is a “yoga body” aesthetic, which is long and sinewy. I am curvy. I get praised on a regular basis, with people telling me, “Wow, you're so brave,” simply for showing my curvy body. Being brave is going to war; being curvy is not brave. We need to be careful with how we use our words.

  Kathryn Budig

  War, Yoga, Long

  "Kathryn Budig on Self-Discovery". Yoga Journal Interview, www.yogajournal.com. September 8, 2014.

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• That's what I like about the idea of the aesthetic experience, the idea of both enjoying looking at works of art and how they kind of talk to you, and also the process of making art, getting back to that idea of the aesthetic experience of making art is very important, It's another way of thinking. Instead of just using your brain, you're using your hands to think with. They're different connections, the brain that comes through the fingertips as opposed that comes through the eyes and ears.

  Michael C. McMillen

  Art, Eye, Thinking

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I actually taught perceptual psychology at N.Y.U. when I was younger. I was interested in the aesthetic impulse in lower primates. But what really interested me in Dian Fossey was that she made a difference - she saved the gorillas.

  Arne Glimcher

  Differences, Psychology, Gorillas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm trying to make a primitive painting. I'm trying to summon the archaic. I want to enter into a primitive situation. This is my protest against the sensory deprivation that we experience, which is due to this tendency towards globalization, towards homogenization, towards the generic - a technological standard rather than an aesthetic standard. I'm mining history, trying to regenerate a pictorial situation that is more humanistic. It's not about commodification, it's not about fitting into some sort of corporate structure. It's opposed to that direction.

  Philip Taaffe

  Trying, Painting, Globalization

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What quality is shared by all objects that provoke our aesthetic emotions? Only one answer seems possible— significant form. In each, lines and colors combined in a particular way; certain forms and relations of forms, stir our aesthetic emotions. These relations and combinations of lines and colors, these aesthetically moving forms, I call ‘Significant Form’; and ‘Significant Form’ is the one quality common to all works of visual art.

  Clive Bell

  Art, Moving, Color

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• I use music as something from which I obtain some form of - I hate to use the word spiritual - guidance, an awareness of something more than the day-to-day or the petty. I am not reading Emanuel Kant to try to embark on a task of seeing if I can understand myself, what the aesthetic experience is. But I wholeheartedly believe in it, even though I think not too many do nowadays.

  Richard Meale

  Spiritual, Hate, Believe

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• It's been fun for me to figure out what I am in the world of fashion. I pull more now from my hometown, the aesthetic of the mountains and Arizona and the old western, vintage kind of vibe mixed with a sort of California bohemia.

  Zella Day

  Fashion, Fun, Mountain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think seeing is about truly looking, observing, and taking things in with an open mind. It's easy to see things at face value but some of the most beautiful things are not apparent at first glance. The works that stick with me and that I find to be most beautiful are often not aesthetically inviting right off the bat. So I think having an open mind and allowing the lines to blur between art, music, fashion, food, what have you, all leads to cultivating a much more open and enjoyable aesthetic sensibility.

  Chloe Wise

  Beautiful, Fashion, Art

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Is there an aesthetic "fit" in my work between God and the world? The "I' in my poems has from the beginning identified himself as Catholic, and my books certainly can be read as presenting a Catholic theology "in a very particular sense." Catholicism is a faith morally identified with the human struggle for human dignity and justice. It is a vision of the world incarnationally rooted in the senses, a faith of and in spoken and written words - Scripture, "the Word of God," the Logos.

  Lawrence Joseph

  Book, Struggle, Justice

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• We like to juxtapose our music with a more dour aesthetic.

  Matthew Healy

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• I'm not interested in doing the same kind of picture over and over again. I pose problems for myself. Sometimes they are aesthetic problems and sometimes they are logistical problems.

  Stephen Shore

  Kind, Problem, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Black metal - especially from the '90s - contains a certain production aesthetic that keys you into the emotive content. You feel it more intimately than, say, technical death metal, where everything is produced super-precisely.

  Jorge Elbrecht

  Black, Metals

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and promotes emotional detachment.

  Susan Sontag

  Emotional, Giving, Understanding

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.100, Macmillan

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• Mormonism has this great cheesy aesthetic - when you watch their videos, it's almost as if they're about to flash a smile at the camera and burst into song. Mormon cheesiness is so close to musical cheesiness.

  Matt Stone

  Song, Cheesy, Musical

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• My first girlfriend, when I was about 18, was a fashion designer, and my sister was a fashion designer as well. I've always been into shopping, and I've always been very aesthetic, in a sense.

  Johan Lindeberg

  Fashion, Girlfriend, Designer

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy of the environment's objectivity or the individual's psychic history. Guided by the latter, art is redeemed, makes the world into its instrument, and forges, beyond spatial and temporal prisons, a personal vision.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Mirrors, Objectivity

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• We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of reason. Mythology must become philosophical, so that the people may become rational, and philosophy must become mythological, so that philosophers may become sensible. If we do not give ideas a form that is aesthetic, i.e., mythological, they will hold no interest for people.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Ideas

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• Perhaps the central question about [Eliot] Porter's work is about the relationship between science, aesthetics, and environmental politics. His brother, the painter and critic Fairfield Porter, wrote in a 1960 review of [Porter's] colour photographs: 'There is no subject and background, every corner is alive,' and this suggests what an ecological aesthetic might look like.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Brother, Environmental, Looks

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• It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded.

  Lewis Thomas

  Real, Learning, Knows

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• When I first came on the scene, I don't think people knew what to make of the way I dress, my aesthetic and how that ties into my music. It took a lot of explaining. You don't really see females in country music dressed in all black wearing funeral garb with netting on their face. I have a bit of a gothic sense to me in a lot of ways, with a bit of outlaw country, rockabilly and blues. My subject matter is off the cuff a little bit.

  Lindi Ortega

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• Famously, Anne Boleyn was not a beauty: she was more about quirkiness and an innate sensuality, and there are a lot of references to her eyes. Which sends out a great message for women, because life is not about the aesthetic all the time.

  Natalie Dormer

  Eye, Messages, Life Is

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• Whatever they are, can Comics be "Art"? Of course they can. The "Art" in a piece is something independent of genre, form, or material. My feeling is that most paintings, most films, most music, most literature and, indeed, most comics fail as "Art." A masterpiece in any genre, form or material is equally "good." It's ridiculous to impose a hierarchy of value on art. The division between high and low art is one that cannot be defended because it has no correlation to aesthetic response.

  Phoebe Gloeckner

  Art, Independent, Feelings

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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• Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, the real process of thought. Thought's dictation, free from any control by the reason, independent of any aesthetic or moral preoccupation.

  Andre Breton

  Real, Independent, Writing

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• In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.

  Edward de Bono

  Art, Creativity, Emotional

  Edward De Bono (2010). “Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Although I was born in Idaho and now live in New York, I definitely identify with the European aesthetic. Paris is my mecca; it's where I discovered my flair for fashion. But I pay rent and work in New York, so that is my home - I love the culture clash of the city.

  Dree Hemingway

  Fashion, New York, Home

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