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Changes in our aesthetic tastes have no value or meaning in and of themselves; what has value and meaning is the idea of change itself. Or, better stated: not change in and of itself, but change as an agent or inspiration of modern creations. -- Octavio Paz
Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside. -- Coco Chanel
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
An Aesthetic Saint -- J.d. Salinger
One does not consider style, because style is. -- Robert Stone
Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization. -- Ayn Rand
Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod embellishments - all these media and many other non-galleried forms have hosted and fostered esthetic delights that satisfy any rigorous definition of art. -- Paul Di Filippo
All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation. -- Susan Sontag
It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art ... that held and moved and stirred the beholder as sheer decoration could not. -- Clement Greenberg
The most important thing in art is taste. -- Sean Lennon
Artists who have produced experimental innovations have been motivated by aesthetic criteria: they have aimed at presenting visual perceptions. Their goals are imprecise, so their procedure is tentative and incremental. -- David Galenson
The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs. -- Robert Schumann
Elegance is innate ... individual ... eternal ... it stands the test of time! -- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Pure, intense emotions. It's not about design. It's about feelings. -- Alber Elbaz
Art is all in the details. -- Christian Marclay
I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression. -- John Malkovich
Elegance does not catch the eye. It stays in memory. -- Giorgio Armani
Don't think too much of style. -- William Morris
It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function and simplification. -- Raymond Loewy
I have always been drawn to the beauty of things designed to function. Mixing technical pieces with more traditional prints and patterns creates not only a quality experience, but a look that is unique, and for me, very exciting. -- Ralph Lauren
My paintings and sculptures, at first glance, may appear to be purely aesthetic; closer up, they are not. They hold a feeling of tentativeness, combined with a sense of arrival. -- Budd Hopkins
There's something very environmental about quality. We live in such a disposable society, but real style doesn't change that much. -- Elizabeth Rogers
However, the immediacy with which aesthetic judgments arise should not fool us into assuming that their origins are entirely natural or their verdicts unalterable. -- Alain De Botton
Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others. -- Paulo Coelho
Style, like taste, is resistant to lucid definition; however, both, as living things should be, are subject to constant change. -- Harlan Ellison
simplicity is the key of elegance -- Coco Chanel
Style is primarily a matter of instinct. -- Bill Blass
I like simplicity. I like using natural sources. I like images to look natural - as though somebody sitting in a room by a lamp is being lit by that lamp. -- Roger Deakins
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
BARQI: AESTHETICS IS ONLY THE LOWEST FORM OF PERCEPTION OF THE REAL. -- Idries Shah
Basic geometric shapes communicate universal qualities common to all cultures. Practical design integrates them appropriately. -- Maggie Macnab
Design has allowed us to stand out; to look different and show that difference boldy. -- Joseph D Mansueto
It's easy to dismiss design - to relegate it to mere ornament, the prettifying of places and objects to disguise their banality. But that is a serious misunderstanding of what design is and why it matters - especially now. -- Daniel H. Pink
The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak; when you're present in the current moment; when you're resonating with the excitement of this thing that you're experiencing; when you are fully alive. -- Ken Robinson
What for others is style, for me is soul. -- Johann Georg Hamann
Style is the perfection of a point of view. -- Richard Eberhart
Style is the essence of man -- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
Beauty is not just physical. -- Halle Berry
There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to discover. -- Paul Gauguin
So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics? -- Mark Poster
Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response. -- April Greiman
elegance and euphoria -- Jennifer Niven
Behind the aesthetic form lies the repressed harmony of sensuousness and reason -- Herbert Marcuse
We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source of inspiration to those who have the pleasure of living with it. -- Arthur Erickson
Introducing the idea of beauty as a salve and of aesthetics making something difficult accessible. -- Henri Cole
A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion. -- Karel Reisz
Style jazzes up your canvas. -- A.d. Posey
Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground. -- Paulo Coelho
We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art. -- Eli Siegel
The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit. -- Sri Aurobindo
I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic. -- Clive Bell
Without style, there can be no identity. -- John Kinsella
Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression. -- Karl Marx
AESTHETICS OF THE AESTHETICIAN
What is the aesthetician
But a mule hitched to the times? -- Kenneth Koch
Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style. -- Stephen Bayley
Style is the image of character. -- Edward Gibbon
In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic. -- Joseph Altuzarra
Good design is long-lasting! It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated ... -- Dieter Rams
Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful. -- Jock Sturges
What is artistically good is whatever articulates and presents feeling to our understanding. -- Susanne Katherina Langer
Elegance in objects is everybody's right, and it shouldn't cost more than ugliness. -- Paola Antonelli
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
What is aesthetically beautiful, should not be able to be understood fully: by its mysterious character it should leave behind a vaguely pleasant feeling. -- Nicola Lecca
How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality. -- Andre Gide
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. -- Edsger Dijkstra
In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us. -- Oscar Wilde
I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration. -- Jil Sander
We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental. -- Janet Fitch
Elegance is the balance between PROPORTION, EMOTION & SURPRISE. -- Valentino Garavani
The quality of beauty lies on
how beholder values an object. -- Toba Beta
Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it. -- Edgar Degas
To the viewer, who has little emotional investment in how the work gets done, art made primarily to display technical virtuosity is often beautiful, striking, elegant ... and vacant. -- David Bayles
Fuck, if only 'aesthetic idiom' didn't sound so damn poncy. -- Hal Duncan
Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances. -- Henri Matisse
We worship the aesthetic, but we do not have faith in it. -- Mason Cooley
All life rests on appearance, art, illusion, optics, the need for perspective and for error ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness. -- Clarice Lispector
Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Design is everything. -- William Merritt Chase
Art is subject to arbitrary fashion. -- Kary Mullis
While great art makes you wonder, great design makes things clear. -- John Maeda
The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything. -- Gary Inbinder
I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values. -- Antoni Tapies
There is the refusal of style and the refusal of sentimentalism, there is this desire for clarity ... -- Luc Delahaye
Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life. -- Roger Scruton
The design should make the product speak to you. -- Dieter Rams
They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the way they have begun; they have voiced most of all the imperative need of essential personalism, of direct expression of direct experience. -- Marsden Hartley
When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road. -- Ove Arup
No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it gladdens our daily path. -- Edgar Allan Poe
I need contrast-the old and the new, the rough and the soft. The clash of it all is very sexy. -- Catherine Malandrino
Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter. -- Donna Karan
Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand. -- Andre Maurois
Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition. -- George Santayana
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it. -- Diana Vreeland
Style? I have no style. -- Anatoly Karpov
To me, style is consistency. -- Adam Ant
I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design. -- Olivier Theyskens
honest-to-goodness beauty -- Marci Peschke
To see distinctly the machinery
the wheels and pinions
of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we are able to enjoy only just in proportion as we do not enjoy the legitimate effect designed by the artist. -- Edgar Allan Poe
