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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. -- E. O. Wilson
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people. -- Thomas J. Watson
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. -- Alfred North Whitehead
For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through. -- Steve Jobs
The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder. -- Helena Christensen
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself. -- Roberto Burle Marx
Aesthetic delectation is the danger to be avoided. -- Marcel Duchamp
Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. -- Richard Rogers
I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique -- Edmund White
It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade. -- Manuel Puig
Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech. -- George Edward Woodberry
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else. -- Evelyn Waugh
Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual. -- Friedrich Schiller
The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally. -- Stephen Gardiner
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. -- Sophia Loren
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. -- George Bernard Shaw
Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it's very important for the spirit and therefore the health. -- Robert Bateman
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game. -- Octavio Paz
Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know. -- Daniel Tammet
The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy. -- Clive Bell
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 -- Anish Kapoor
I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic. -- Spike Lee
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art. -- Remy de Gourmont
Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity. -- Stanley Crouch
Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names. -- Calvin Seerveld
It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being. -- Hans-Georg Gadamer
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation. -- Hans Hofmann
Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take aesthetic communication, and aesthetic pleasure, seriously. We, their customers, demand it. -- Virginia Postrel
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. -- Amy Tan
In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture. -- Arne Jacobsen
We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of Aesthetic Truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive. -- David Mamet
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. -- Genevieve Gorder
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. -- Richard Serra
How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental? -- A.S. King
Wine is a chemical symphony. and The Aesthetic differentiation of Chesapeake Bay oysters and Olympia oysters occurs only after we can really differentiate them. This differentiation cannot occur until we are thoroughly familiar with both. The same is true with wines. -- Maynard Amerine
There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms of human activity. Whoever creates new artistic conventions has found methods of interchange between people about matters which were incommunicable before. The capacity to do this has been the basis of the whole of human history. -- John Zachary Young
I would describe my aesthetic as definitely personal and harmonious with an eclectic yet bohemian sensibility. -- Lisa Marie Presley
Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health. -- Robert Evans
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm interested in aesthetics, in the way things look, in finding something in an image that maybe people haven't seen. -- Alexa Chung
I want big ideas to have aesthetic relevance. I want to tickle people's intellectual sensibilities and instill a sense of wonder. -- Jason Silva
Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained. -- Ferdinand Porsche
Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics. -- Sloane Crosley
I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for. -- Deepak Chopra
Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. -- Richard Courant
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind. -- Clive Bell
In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded. -- Tom Robbins
Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process. -- Paul Rand
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. -- Jhonen Vasquez
Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. -- Paul Rand
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it. -- John Cusack
Although people often equate them, glamour is not the same as beauty, stylishness, luxury, celebrity, or sex appeal. It is not limited to fashion or film; nor is it intrinsically feminine. It is not a collection of aesthetic markers - a style, as fashion and design use the word. -- Virginia Postrel
I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their own aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries. -- Jerry Saltz
I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness. -- Mike Mills
Mars is not an aesthetic God. -- John Brown Gordon
Women are less aesthetic than men. -- Alice Eve
Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness. -- Brian Sewell
Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying. -- Tamsin Egerton
A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense. -- Bruno Munari
I don't buy jewelry just for the aesthetic side. -- Julia Restoin Roitfeld
In many contexts, simplicity is not an aesthetic frill. -- Elliott Sober
Consider your house from an aesthetic point of view. -- Anthea Turner
Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms. -- Chaim Potok
aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake. -- Noah Kerner
Facing the kitsch aesthetic is the unfathomable world of myths. -- Saul Friedlander
All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain. -- Anthony Burgess
My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof. -- Jean-Luc Godard
Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept. -- Eva Zeisel
To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense. -- Erasmus Darwin
Being dead is the most airtight defense of one's own aesthetic. -- Sarah Ruhl
There's something about fear and aesthetic that go hand in hand. -- Christopher Bollen
Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians. -- Alfred North Whitehead
All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war. -- Walter Benjamin
Light has an evident, functional and aesthetic impact on our lives. -- Olafur Eliasson
We like to juxtapose our music with a more dour aesthetic. -- Matthew Healy
Fashion right now, people are so...everything is driven by the aesthetic. -- Pusha T
I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique." -- Edmund White
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression. -- Evelyn Waugh
I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique. -- Edmund White
I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones. -- Andres Serrano
My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons. -- Peter Zumthor
Behind the aesthetic form lies the repressed harmony of sensuousness and reason -- Herbert Marcuse
He had never believed that spirituality had to be anemic or aesthetic. -- Irving Stone
We worship the aesthetic, but we do not have faith in it. -- Mason Cooley
Kitsch may be conveniently defined as a specifically aesthetic form of lying. -- Matei Calinescu
Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms. -- Daniel Bell
I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means. -- J. G. Ballard
I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it. -- Zack Snyder
The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs. -- Robert Schumann
I'm sick of having red hair, but people seem to like that aesthetic. -- Rachel Hurd-Wood
Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist. -- Alan Parker
The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development. -- Patrick Swift
There's no specific aesthetic other than a sense of the beautiful itself, I suppose. -- Kristoffer Rygg
Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles. -- Richard Dawkins
Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition. -- George Santayana
Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical -- Hermann Broch
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic. -- Beatrice Wood
Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad. -- Arthur Erickson
The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession. -- Thorstein Veblen
We all appreciated a certain aesthetic, and with that appreciation came a certain stylized presence. -- Amber Heard
Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting, -- Andrea Illy
Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact. -- John Szarkowski
I like the 50s, party-movie aesthetic of the beach. I'm not really into modern-day beach. -- Bethany Cosentino
The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites, -- Eli Siegel
In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression. -- Edward de Bono
In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness. -- Clarice Lispector
The throat chakra is the center that is aesthetic. It gives an appreciation of beauty. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I like anything with my face on it, just from an aesthetic point of view. -- Martin Freeman
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. -- Gaston Bachelard
With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome. -- Ken Baumann
I try to bring as much taste, smartness, quality, functionality, and aesthetic qualities to everyday clothes. -- Christophe Lemaire
I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do -- Pat Metheny
I am a person who holds the aesthetic high. I have suits made in Savile Row. -- Gary Kemp
The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship. -- Havelock Ellis
I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration. -- Alton Tobey
For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
My aesthetic is probably closer to a 15-year-old's than my dad's, but I get his conviction. -- Zack Snyder

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