Aesthetics Quotes - Page 2

• Take Einstein; wasn't he looking for something stable and changeless in this enormous, constantly changing melting pot that is the universe? He sought fixed rules. Today, instead, it would be helpful to find all those rules that show how and why the universe is not fixed - how this dynamism develops and acts. Then maybe we will be able to explain many things, perhaps even art, because the old instruments of judgment, the old aesthetics, are no longer of any use to us - so much so that we no longer know what's beautiful and what isn't.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Beautiful, Art, Use

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Writing, Divine

  Victor Hugo (1909). “The Works of Victor Hugo ...”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.

  George Santayana

  Real, Intuition, Criticism

  George Santayana (2009). “The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress”, p.1058, The Floating Press

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.

  Ben Shneiderman

  Art, Science, Engineering

  "Mathematical Modeling and Experimental Study of Interface Aesthetics". Book by Michael P. Bauerly, 2007.

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• I want to teach [people] the secret of great visual presentation. Your stomach sees the food first, and I want to help them match food flavor profiles with the aesthetics of everything.

  Wolfgang Puck

  People, Secret, Flavor

  Source: foodnservice.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.

  John Cusack

  Girl, Guy, Awkward

  "Being John Cusack". Interview with Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2000.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Poetry, Harmony

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12470, Delphi Classics

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Thinking, Interesting

  8 Copy quote

• Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance.

  George Steinbrenner

  Thinking, People, Underdog

  21 Copy quote

• [Alexei Nemov] has the best feel for the aesthetics of the sport. He doesn't just do a skill; he makes it look gorgeous. Some gymnasts think if their arm is bent a little it doesn't matter, but Nemov understands it matters.

  Peter Vidmar

  Sports, Gymnastics, Thinking

  10 Copy quote

• Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.

  Edward Hopper

  Artist, Cities, Bigs

  24 Copy quote

• Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Motivational, Success, Time

  16 Copy quote

• Probably the high-watermark of [Bob] Dylan's career came after he plugged in his guitar ("Judas!" one fan shouted during a concert) and exploded American poetry, combining Beat aesthetics, psychedelic imagery, collage techniques.

  Jay Michaelson

  Guitar, Careers, Technique

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.

  Andrew Solomon

  Believe, Ornaments, Organized

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• For me, the value of a climb is the sum of three inseparable elements, all equally important: aesthetics, history, and ethics. Together they form the whole basis of my concept of alpinism. Some people see no more in climbing mountains than an escape from the harsh realities of modern times. This is not only uninformed but unfair. I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.

  Walter Bonatti

  Real, Climbing, Essence

  67 Copy quote

• I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.

  Edwin Land

  Science, Engineering, Long

  8 Copy quote

• A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.

  Alain Ducasse

  Men, Perfection, Taste

  24 Copy quote

• I describe it ( the new aesthetics) 'radically': I say aesthetics = human being. That is a radical formula. I set the idea of aesthetics directly in the context of human existence, and then I have the whole problem in the hand, them I have not a special problem, I have a "holography" (reacting on a former suggestion of the public as a slight joke, fh) I don't know exactly what a holography is.. (1973

  Joseph Beuys

  Hands, Ideas, Special

  13 Copy quote

• Beauty has never been an important topic in the writings of the major psychologists. In fact, for Jung, aesthetics is a weak, early stage of development. He follows the Germanic view that ethics is more important than aesthetics, and he draws a stark contrast between the two. Freud may have written about literature a bit, but an aesthetic sensitivity is not part of his psychology.

  James Hillman

  Writing, Views, Two

  Source: scottlondon.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.

  Yann Martel

  People, Mind, Stories

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Memories, Desire, Impulse

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2011). “Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide”, p.142, Vintage

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. The myths and laws of religion are not true because they they conform to some metaphysical, scientific or historical reality but because they are life enhancing. They tell you how human nature functions, but you will not discover their truth unless you apply these myths and doctrines to your own life and put them into practice.

  Karen Armstrong

  Life, Change, Truth

  68 Copy quote

• When you make work, the concept is the basis for it; all choices of aesthetics or mediums come later.

  Doug Aitken

  Choices, Mediums, Bases

  11 Copy quote

• Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics.

  Dave Eggers

  Beautiful, Thinking, Needs

  "A local rag in brand new drag... at $16 a copy". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2009.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I paint I do a different thing than when I design. But both involve aesthetics, both involve thought, both involve planning.

  Paula Scher

  Design, Different, Planning

  Source: es.scribd.com

  21 Copy quote

  Show source