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• I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.

  Peter Greenaway

  Ideas, Plot, Cinema

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• Vegetarianism has nothing to do with religion: it is something basically scientific. It has nothing to do with morality, but it has much to do with aesthetics. It is unbelievable that a man of sensitivity, awareness, understanding, love, can eat meat. And if he can eat meat then something is missing he is still unconscious somewhere of what he is doing, unconscious of the implications of his acts.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Vegetarianism, Missing

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• Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Ethics, Good Things, Contagious

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from Jan 13, 2012

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• Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative; and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion to its abstractness. To define beauty not in the most abstract, but in the most concrete terms possible, not to find a universal formula for it, but the formula which expresses most adequately this or that special manifestation of it, is the aim of the true student of aesthetics.

  Walter Pater

  Special, Quality, Useless

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• ..I sought a world philosophy-or an integral philosophy-that would believably weave together the many pluralistic contexts of science, morals, aesthetics, Eastern as well as Western philosophy, and the world's great wisdom traditions. Not on the level of details-that is finitely impossible; but on the level of orienting generalizations: a way to suggest that the world really is one, undivided, whole, and related to itself in every way: a holistic philosophy for a holistic Kosmos, a plausible Theory of Everything.

  Ken Wilber

  Philosophy, Together, World

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• I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those are an important part of my childhood and my identity.

  Ayad Akhtar

  Childhood, Important, Identity

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

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• My role is to find strategic insights as to where design can have the most business impact. A designer can bring a viewpoint of not just aesthetics, but economics and usage.

  John Maeda

  Impact, Design, Roles

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• I'm interested in aesthetics, in the way things look, in finding something in an image that maybe people haven't seen.

  Alexa Chung

  People, Looks, Way

  "Women of Britain - your designers need you!" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2009.

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• The Indians have such strong traditions and aesthetics, and the people are beautiful, as are their goods.

  Georgina Chapman

  Beautiful, Strong, People

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• Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

  Leo Ornstein

  Trying, Today, Language

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• Zen is not morality, it is aesthetics. It does not impose a code of morality. it does not give you any commandments: do this, don't do that.

  Rajneesh

  Giving, Doe, Morality

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• It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and discipline to make good work out of the life, whether that goodness is in the world's aesthetics, its radicalism, its candor, its singularity, or its universality.

  Stephanie Mills

  Responsibility, Artist, Discipline

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.132, Island Press

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• The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Principles, Methodology

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Beauty, Faces, Admire

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• One could go on for ever as to whether the paint should be thick or thin, whether to paint the woman or the square, hard-edge or soft, but after a while such questions become a bore. They are merely problems in aesthetics, having only to do with the outer man.

  Lee Krasner

  Men, Squares, Goes On

  Robert Carleton Hobbs, Lee Krasner (1993). “Lee Krasner”, Abbeville Press

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• The goal changes from the general to the individual from need to wish, from ethics to aesthetics.

  Asger Jorn

  Goal, Wish, Needs

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• Theater and music are both collaborative media, and I think they're best when they combine different people's visions and aesthetics.

  Nick Blaemire

  Thinking, Media, People

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I consider morals and aesthetics one and the same, for they cover only one impulse, one drive inherent in our consciousness - to bring our life and all our actions into a satisfactory relationship with the events of the world as our consciousness wants it to be, in harmony with our life and according to the laws of consciousness itself.

  Naum Gabo

  Law, Events, World

  "The Quotable Artist". Book by Peggy Hadden, 2010.

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• In fact, the environmental crisis is related to the crisis of aesthetics, crisis of social cohesion and the crisis of spiritual values.

  Satish Kumar

  Spiritual, Environmental, Facts

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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• Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things , which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau.

  Camille Paglia

  Egypt, Personality, Lines

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

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• [I'm concerned with] aesthetics and this idea of how the passage between life and death goes. I can visually present that by borrowing this Buddhist statue.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Buddhist, Ideas, Life And Death

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative, finally refines itself out of existence, impersonalises itself, so to speak. The aesthetic image in the dramatic form is life purified in and reprojected from the human imagination. The mystery of aesthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

  James Joyce

  God, Art, Imagination

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 5 (1916).

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• I love cinema. I think the risk of the aesthetics being fixed is compensated by other advantages. Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

  Yann Martel

  Powerful, Thinking, Risk

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I always try to appreciate the most fleeting moments. The idea of the acrobats constantly tumbling and trying to adjust - I think that is what we do with aesthetics. It is a cyclical rhythm

  Phillip Lim

  Thinking, Ideas, Appreciate

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• I never wanted to accept the position of the observer who is not involved in the situation. The technique and the aesthetics do not matter to me. Only the essence of what is happening is important to me. Here, for example, blurred pictures, they have appeared because for years I was shooting while being drunk.

  Antoine D'Agata

  Years, Essence, Drunk

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