Aesthetic Quotes

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

Aesthetic delectation is the danger to be avoided.

Light has an evident, functional and aesthetic impact on our lives.

Ethics and aesthetics are one.

My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof.

All I can say about the work I try to do, is that the aesthetic is in reality itself.

I'm always interested in finding new aesthetic problems to deal with and challenge myself, even if the aesthetic problem is one of content.

The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.

Elephant and Piggie have a very large input. They have a distinct aesthetic taste. They like books that are philosophical. They like books that are dialogue-driven. They like books that are about issues that they live with, in their own elephantine and porcine ways.

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.

Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury

I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.

I'm intrigued with figuring out the places [where] the horrible and the beautiful meet - that aesthetic fascinates me.

It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account.

We can tolerate great diversity in our aesthetic beliefs, but we can't tolerate much diversity in our moral beliefs.

Rules of taste enforce structures of power.

Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.

I would describe my aesthetic as definitely personal and harmonious with an eclectic yet bohemian sensibility.

I have tried to draw the human effigy (and all the other subjects dealt with in my paintings) in an immediate and effective way without any reference to the aesthetic.

Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.

On the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry.

What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed.

There's no specific aesthetic other than a sense of the beautiful itself, I suppose.

I like simple, I like quality, and I like less. Do I like a certain aesthetic? Yeah.

I like the concept of shooting beautiful, aesthetic, cinematographic pieces, and still allowing them to be explicit

Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.

You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

There's something about fear and aesthetic that go hand in hand.

Being dead is the most airtight defense of one's own aesthetic.

Material Girl is about having your own personal style, and my personal style reflects the brand's aesthetic.

Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.

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.

I always just been a fan of the music... and the aesthetic only in an abstract sense.

The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.

Aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake.

The aesthetic experience has to be given. And beauty is a regular experience of every person - every person who is not clinically depressed!

I am a person who holds the aesthetic high. I have suits made in Savile Row.

In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.

Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness.

I feel like a lot of my aesthetic was in response to feeling the awfulness and cheapness of that [ the 70'th].

The wine itself has aesthetic value; but what it is for a wine to have aesthetic value cannot be understood without making reference to the experience to tasting it

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

In many contexts, simplicity is not an aesthetic frill.

It's not so much a philosophy as much as it is a pace. We need to be personally involved with every aspect of the records including the artwork, we want everything to have a similar aesthetic.

I don't buy jewelry just for the aesthetic side.

There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.'

If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.