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'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.

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.

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

Rules of taste enforce structures of power.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

In many contexts, simplicity is not an aesthetic frill.

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

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.'

I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.

A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success.

I'm kind of still down with Virg Woolf on this one: "women must kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have been 'killed' into art."

If we reject the word, or any word that labels music, what's left? That's the question we should all ask ourselves. Ben Ratliff asked it, and he came up with aesthetic categories. That's not what I would say. What's left are communities who make music together, or among whom music circulates. That's it.

Women are less aesthetic than men.

Of course it would depend on the project, but I don't think I could ever separate myself from my aesthetic.

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

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

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

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.

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!