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Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds. -- Barnett Newman
Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change. -- Oscar Wilde
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
Ethics and aesthetics are one. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Television is coitus interruptus brought into aesthetics. -- Norman Mailer
Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds. -- Barnett Newman
The eye is the painter and the ear the singer. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty. -- Miuccia Prada
A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more. -- Alain Ducasse
Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition. -- George Santayana
Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not. -- Susan Sontag
Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible. -- W. H. Auden
Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people. -- Shepard Fairey
Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds. -- Jimenez Lai
Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. -- Paul Rand
Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again. -- Ben Shneiderman
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game. -- Octavio Paz
The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry. -- Victor Hugo
I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics. -- Edwin Land
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well. -- Albert Einstein
At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel. -- Rudolf Arnheim
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
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
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
Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance. -- George Steinbrenner
Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences in terms of oneâ??s feelings of self-worth and oneâ??s capacity to be a political agent. -- Cornel West
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 great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years. -- Jerry Saltz
Aesthetics does not exist for the camera as an isolated entity. Aesthetics, in fact, is inseparable from the purpose of the photographer and the use he makes of his theme. When photography fails... it is usually because a false separation has been imposed on form and content. -- Sid Grossman
Neutrality has its own aesthetics. -- Wim Crouwel
I like the aesthetics of the Church. -- Andres Serrano
Domination has its own aesthetics, and democratic domination has its democratic aesthetics. -- Herbert Marcuse
BARQI: AESTHETICS IS ONLY THE LOWEST FORM OF PERCEPTION OF THE REAL. -- Idries Shah
It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making. -- Cory Doctorow
I believe that one of the most powerful things of all is aesthetics. -- Kalle Lasn
Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable. -- Miguel
The films dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing. -- Edward Dmytryk
The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing. -- Edward Dmytryk
I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds. -- Yann Martel
I'm not giving up on my work. I'm still trying to challenge people's aesthetics and myself. -- Guido Palau
This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice. -- Asger Jorn
I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics. -- Jeremy Renner
The Indians have such strong traditions and aesthetics, and the people are beautiful, as are their goods. -- Georgina Chapman
The goal changes from the general to the individual from need to wish, from ethics to aesthetics. -- Asger Jorn
Whenever there's a change with Jazz & its aesthetics, it's almost always reflected with a change in the culture. -- Tom Harrell
Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language. -- Leo Ornstein
Art shouldn't be only the aesthetics we hang on the wall, but a dynamic to shape the society. -- Genco Gulan
Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health. -- Robert Evans
When you make work, the concept is the basis for it; all choices of aesthetics or mediums come later. -- Doug Aitken
I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power. -- Andrew Solomon
I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one. -- Josef Albers
When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road. -- Ove Arup
The connection between romantic politics and aesthetics is plain in Schiller's and Novalis's concept of the aesthetic or poetic state. -- Frederick C. Beiser
To me there is an intimate relationship between austerity and more lush aesthetics. They're two faces of the same coin. -- Sally Potter
Theater and music are both collaborative media, and I think they're best when they combine different people's visions and aesthetics. -- Nick Blaemire
I'm interested in aesthetics, in the way things look, in finding something in an image that maybe people haven't seen. -- Alexa Chung
Joe Wright is incredible and I'm a huge admirer of his work in general, but specifically his aesthetics and poeticism. -- Bryce Dallas Howard
Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics. -- Dave Eggers
If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear. -- Jef Raskin
I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival. -- August Wilson
So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics? -- Mark Poster
Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained. -- Ferdinand Porsche
Besides the aesthetics, besides teaching an appreciation of T.S. Eliot, a basic need is fulfilled when you teach English at CUNY. -- Billy Collins
The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal. -- Auguste Rodin
When I paint I do a different thing than when I design. But both involve aesthetics, both involve thought, both involve planning. -- Paula Scher
In fact, the environmental crisis is related to the crisis of aesthetics, crisis of social cohesion and the crisis of spiritual values. -- Satish Kumar
Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one's sensitivity, one's respect, one's reverence for life. -- Rajneesh
Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained. -- Ferdinand Porsche
I have a confidence in my understanding of formal aesthetics and I don't want to be aware of it or make that my problem. -- Eva Hesse
People ridiculously overvalue aesthetics and beauty when evaluating products. It's one of the reasons iPods, and, for that matter, Keanu Reeves, are so successful. -- Joel Spolsky
I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty. -- Marcel Duchamp
I came in making choices about how I deploy aesthetics and imagery strategically. It seems to me that's the only legitimate way of making work. -- Kerry James Marshall
Cycling is based so much on form, on aesthetics, on class - the way you carry yourself on the bike, the sort of technique you have. -- David Millar
Despite the fact that I'm not highly skilled in any visual art, aesthetics have always played a strong role in my art, including my first albums. -- Vivek Shraya
The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and power chords. -- Colin Marston
A movie tends to box you in, at least as far as the aesthetics. You have an incredibly kinetic experience, which is the joy of cinema. -- Yann Martel
[I'm concerned with] aesthetics and this idea of how the passage between life and death goes. I can visually present that by borrowing this Buddhist statue. -- Hiroshi Sugimoto
This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge. -- Kenneth L. Pike
My favorite form is the short story. From an aesthetics stand point you really have to pare down to the bone. You can't write a throw-away scene. -- Roger Zelazny
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
The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call works of art. -- Clive Bell
Zen is not morality, it is aesthetics. It does not impose a code of morality. it does not give you any commandments: do this, don't do that. -- Rajneesh
The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works. -- Albert Einstein
Game mechanics are the core of what a game truly is. They are the interactions and relationships that remain when all of the aesthetics, technology, and story are stripped away. -- Jesse Schell
My role is to find strategic insights as to where design can have the most business impact. A designer can bring a viewpoint of not just aesthetics, but economics and usage. -- John Maeda
At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes, or of one's childhood, or of a storm at sea ... -- M. F. K. Fisher
I want to teach [people] the secret of great visual presentation. Your stomach sees the food first, and I want to help them match food flavor profiles with the aesthetics of everything. -- Wolfgang Puck
Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was only lust. And lust was not love. -- Eric Jerome Dickey
Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics. -- Edward Hopper
There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will. -- Jock Sturges
I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing. -- Peter Greenaway
When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it. -- John Cusack
If you come at movies with your own sense of morality and not your own sense of aesthetics, I think you're screwed. I think that's not a way to look at movies. -- Bret Easton Ellis
Probably the high-watermark of [Bob] Dylan's career came after he plugged in his guitar ("Judas!" one fan shouted during a concert) and exploded American poetry, combining Beat aesthetics, psychedelic imagery, collage techniques. -- Jay Michaelson
I believed in the Catholic position, the Catholic view of ethics and aesthetics, for a long time. But I wanted something not intellectual, some conviction not mental - in fact I wanted faith. -- Joyce Kilmer
While the aesthetics of consumption (photographic or otherwise) requires a heroicized myth of the artist, the exemplary practice of the player-off codes requires only an operator, a producer, a scriptor, or a pasticheur. -- Abigail Solomon-Godeau
An agricultural landscape produces food but it also provides water, requires biodiversity to underpin soil function, pollination and other useful services, and also has value to society in terms of aesthetics and recreation -- Tim Benton
Craft is important, but cameras for their own sake are not. A sense of aesthetics, a connection with the subject matter, an enquiring and an inquisitive mind, these factors outweigh whatever equipment we use. -- Michael Kenna
The less concerned with aesthetics and usability these friends and family members are, the more easily they navigate sites and applications I can't make head nor hair of. Like the ex-girlfriend who mastered Ebay. -- Jeffrey Zeldman
As a visual discourse, architecture requires trained individuals to work on the refined philosophical debates. School gave me the necessary training, and I've built on this based on my own aesthetics, as most do. -- Jimenez Lai
I claim that every woman in this century and in our culture sphere who has ventured into male-dominated institutions - 'literature' and 'aesthetics' are such institutions - must have experienced the desire for self-destruction. -- Christa Wolf
I always try to appreciate the most fleeting moments. The idea of the acrobats constantly tumbling and trying to adjust - I think that is what we do with aesthetics. It is a cyclical rhythm -- Phillip Lim
I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those are an important part of my childhood and my identity. -- Ayad Akhtar
I wish I could be a better writer, but writing is so difficult. I get seduced by visual aesthetics. Because I just like making beautiful pictures, sometimes I wander away from making a clear statement. -- Sally Mann
Science is a limited way of knowing, looking at just the natural world and natural causes. There are a lot of ways human beings understand the universe - through literature, theology, aesthetics, art or music. -- Eugenie Scott

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