Aesthetic Quotes - Page 2

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

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.

Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art.

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

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Television is coitus interruptus brought into aesthetics.

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