Aesthetic Quotes

So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad.

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or misused but it'll also probably provide a way of people acknowledging what the aesthetic is about because people have to confront it every day.

I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise.

I'm definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up was in being around that kind of thing, and it's just what sinks into a person's brain.

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

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

I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.

I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.

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 wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.

I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration.

I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and you can see a lot of echoes of Andy in Ryan's work. Like Andy, Ryan's finger is so on the pulse of culture that he's ahead of culture. Their aesthetic and their vision of the world are very similar.

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.