Aesthetics Quotes

• Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

  Paul Rand

  Art, Simple, Design

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• Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love Life, Giving, Lovely

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• I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

  Miuccia Prada

  Fashion, Ideas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

  Ferdinand Porsche

  Design, Gimmicks, Visuals

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• After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Skills, Levels

  "Beautiful minds" by Peter D Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2002.

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• I believe that one of the most powerful things of all is aesthetics.

  Kalle Lasn

  Powerful, Believe, I Believe

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• Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.

  Barnett Newman

  Art, Bird, Ornithology

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• It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making.

  Cory Doctorow

  Mistake, Decision, Rational

  YouTube Channel "UNC-Chapel Hill"/"Cory Doctorow: Pwned: How Copyright turns us all into IP ser", October 11, 2007.

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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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• Ethics and aesthetics are one.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Ethics, Aesthetic

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.86, Psychology Press

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• Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

  Jimenez Lai

  Philosophy, Agreement, Mind

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people.

  Shepard Fairey

  Art, Believe, Ideas

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• This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice.

  Asger Jorn

  Ice, Progress, Development

  "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 169), 2002.

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• To me there is an intimate relationship between austerity and more lush aesthetics. They're two faces of the same coin.

  Sally Potter

  Intimate Relationships, Two, Coins

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• I find beauty in the continual shaping of chaos which clearly embodies the primordial power of nature's performance

  Iris van Herpen

  Beauty, Nature, Power

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• Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences in terms of one’s feelings of self-worth and one’s capacity to be a political agent.

  Cornel West

  Beautiful, Self Worth, Views

  FaceBook post by Dr. Cornel West from Jun 16, 2011

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• Design is about the betterment of our lives poetically, aesthetically, experientially, sensorially, and emotionally.

  Karim Rashid

  Life, Design, Emotion

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• Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Patterns, Recognition

  Dialogues (1954) (entry for 10 June 1943)

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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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• The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Ears, Singers

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• Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

  W. H. Auden

  Mean, Pleasure, Guides

  1963 The Dyer's Hand,'Reading'.

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• Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

  Paul Rand

  Death, Art, Simple

  "Learning PHP Design Patterns". Book by William Sanders (p. 105), 2013.

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• Advertising isnt just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data.

  Jan Koum

  Team, Writing, Engineering

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• Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Stress, Home, Circles

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• Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.

  Barnett Newman

  Artist, Bird, Ornithology

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