213 Aesthetic Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Mathematics Construction Mind Will Active Analysis Logic Intuition Generality Perfection Individuality Contemplative Aesthetic Reflects Human Human Mind Reason Expression Elements Basic Basic Elements Desire

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

Life Knowledge Technology Creative Economics Design Related Way Complex Visual Ability Point Point Of View Talent Involves Aesthetic Process Psychology Communications Skill View Manual Whole Technical Technical Knowledge

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame. Oscar Wilde

Work Art Ethics Will Beauty Cowardly Own Rich Lesson Complete Those Moral See Vital Strongly More Shame Instincts Terror Aesthetic Than Artistic Who Appeal Fill Whom

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through. Steve Jobs

You Quality Way Carried Through Well Aesthetic Night Sleep

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

Leadership People Nurturing Affection Think Intuition Environment Attention Feel Safe Qualities Make Feminine Aesthetic Which Include Cared Need

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. Friedrich Nietzsche

Art Intoxication Indispensable Physiological Sort Aesthetic Exist Any Certain Activity

The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question: does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life? Richard P. Feynman

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

Art Experience Our Recognition Aesthetic Imposing Pattern Enjoyment

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means. J. G. Ballard

Today People Think Imagination Possible Touch Aesthetic Means

So long as the most vulnerable people in our population are consigned to places that the rest of us will always shun and flee and view with fear, I am afraid that educational denial, medical and economic devastation, and aesthetic degradation will be inevitable. Jonathan Kozol

People Fear Denial Will Rest Long Inevitable Our Degradation Economic Devastation Most Vulnerable Always Am Aesthetic Educational Afraid Places Flee Us View Population Medical Shun

You can't buy vision, and you can't buy aesthetic. Travis Scott

Buy You Vision Aesthetic

Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating. William S. Burroughs

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order. J. G. Ballard

Great Change Political Other Statement Way Machine Hierarchical Driven Exclusive Aesthetic Shifts Cultural Optimism Political Statement Suspect Rolls Order Social Much Social Order Many Prepare Populist Largely

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

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

Home Great Me Circle Rich Ease Architects Give Give Me Knees Sing Clients Aesthetic Dome Just Where Strains Bring Stresses

What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy. Victor Pinchuk

I don't need to be so full of myself that I feel I am without flaw. I can feel beautiful and imperfect at the same time. I have a healthy relationship with my aesthetic insecurities. Lupita Nyong'o

Beautiful Time Myself Relationship I Am Healthy I Can Insecurities I Feel Imperfect Feel Without Am Aesthetic Same Same Time Flaw Full Need

There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader. A. S. Byatt

You Pleasure Failing Reader Aesthetic Trying Unimaginable Certain Imagine

The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant. Adam Mansbach

Love You World Problems Invent Approach Project Out Tell Constant Stay About Structural New Ideas Concerns How Aesthetic New World Being Different Story Certain Figuring Series Each Novelist Thing Set

That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done. Adam Savage

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I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist. Alan Parker

Once Critics Aesthetic Fascist

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