Top 266 Aesthetics Quotes & Sayings

I have a confidence in my understanding of formal aesthetics and I don't want to be aware of it or make that my problem.

I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.

Like everybody else, I've got dark and light, trying to hold onto the civilized part and use it successfully. I'm sure that includes competition, but not in a way that I can recognize. Most of the games I like have more to do with the process of the game or the aesthetics. Racing's really about the aesthetics for me, not particularly the idea of coming in first - though I certainly appreciate a champion, and I like watching people do something really well.

In terms of aesthetics, I probably look better than I did when I played.

Television is coitus interruptus brought into aesthetics.

Aesthetics does not exist for the camera as an isolated entity. Aesthetics, in fact, is inseparable from the purpose of the photographer and the use he makes of his theme. When photography fails... it is usually because a false separation has been imposed on form and content.

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

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.

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

I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.

Art shouldn't be only the aesthetics we hang on the wall, but a dynamic to shape the society.

In The Art and Aesthetics of Boxing, David Scott addresses the daunting task of establishing a groundwork for the aesthetics of boxing-and succeeds with consummate authority. . . . In Scott's incisive blend of art history, sociology, and sports writing, he makes a daring and original statement about fighters and the artists who enshrined them.

When I was little, I just was very tuned in to the functionality and aesthetics of things around me.

The films dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.

Protecting a border is not a nice thing. It is not a matter of aesthetics; it cannot be done with flowers and teddy bears.

I'm very proud of Soviet aesthetics.

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

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

Oftentimes, I feel like, because of my cisnormative look or my aesthetics, that sometimes my talent might get overlooked.

Ethics and aesthetics are one.

Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive.

The connection between romantic politics and aesthetics is plain in Schiller's and Novalis's concept of the aesthetic or poetic state.

I never went into aesthetics. Aesthetics is what philosophers have to say about art, and a lot of them take an analytics position and raise the question, "What is an art object?" As soon as you fall into that trap, an artist is going to come along and say, "That isn't art - it's something else." That's a hopeless gig.

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.

What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good taste? It exists because it behooves rational human beings to provide reasons for their actions and assessments. Even if aesthetics are not the mathematics of beauty, they are the proof of the calculation.

It's time for the aesthetics of upwardly mobile feminist respectability to make room for the aesthetics of survival, particularly trans survival.

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

Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.

Neutrality has its own aesthetics.

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

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

You don't have a choice about fashion or aesthetics - you're in it, whether you like it or not.

I'm not giving up on my work. I'm still trying to challenge people's aesthetics and myself.

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

I'm interested in aesthetics, language, art, fashion, everything.

A Tagore surname signifies an association with aesthetics and all the best things of life. It's enriching both personally and professionally.

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

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

The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.

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

Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.

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

A movie tends to box you in, at least as far as the aesthetics. You have an incredibly kinetic experience, which is the joy of cinema.

The (U.K.) government's thesis that the countryside of upland and coastal Britain is 'worth sacrificing to save the planet' is an insult to science, economics and politics. But the greatest insult is to aesthetics. The trouble is that aesthetics has no way of answering back.

I don't think people experiment enough with clothing because society tries to tell them what they can and can't wear. I love playing around with different aesthetics and/or mixing around aesthetics to create a totally new look.

Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an attempt to impress the reader but to include the reader, draw the reader in, by explaining my experiences - the beauty I feel in a prime number, for example.

Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.

When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road.

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.

I like the aesthetics of the Church.

Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one's sensitivity, one's respect, one's reverence for life.

Many of the elements associated with storybook mythology and gothic aesthetics are actually not expressive.

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

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

I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.

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

Domination has its own aesthetics, and democratic domination has its democratic aesthetics.

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

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

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