Aesthetics Quotes

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pa...

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest mani...

In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.

In a single wave of meaning the triumphant purity of being.

How convenient it is to declare that everything is totally ugly within the habit of the époque, rath...

In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.

there's something wrong with any art that makes a woman all bust

Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that i...

Man is not better treated by nature in his first start than her other works are; so long as he is un...

We are beginning to play with ideas of ecology, and although we immediately trivialize these into co...

Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classro...

The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters.

Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the ...

More than once have I thought, Why does crime, even when as powerful as Cæsar, and assured of being ...

[Hegel’s] system of nature seemed, at least to natural philosophers, absolutely crazy….Hegel…launche...

Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's wh...

Finer feeling, which we now wish to consider, is chiefly of two kinds: the feeling of the *sublime* ...

Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.

Our sole concern with the long dead is aesthetic

A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty

Aestheticism is the garbage of intuitive feeling.

An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.

When a work of painting, music or other form attains two-way communication, it is truly art. One occ...

Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the exte...

What is good is also divine. Queer as it sounds, that sums up my ethics. Only something supernatural...

One interesting thing is the idea that people have of a kind of science of Aesthetics. I would almos...

What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant the...

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

They walked on rather aimlessly. He hoped she wouldn't notice he was touched, because he wouldn't ha...

They walked on rather aimlessly. He hoped she wouldn't notice he was touched, because he wouldn't ha...

They walked on rather aimlessly. He hoped she wouldn't notice he was touched, because he wouldn't ha...

They walked on rather aimlessly. He hoped she wouldn't notice he was touched, because he wouldn't ha...

And if, as all philosophers on the subject have noted, art is a human activity that relies on the se...

With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradati...

Such competence is not necessarily acquired by means of the 'scholastic' labours in which some 'cine...

Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without t...

Then there are the fully intentional pleasures, which, although in some way tied up with sensory or ...

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

In the past an artist produced things that were necessary socially; they were instruments, albeit of...

Rules of taste enforce structures of power.

All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.

All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.

It is with this movement, with the passage and dissolution of impressions, images, sensations, that ...

Color directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the...