Quotesia
Home
Authors
Popular authors
Charles Dickens
C. S. Lewis
Napoleon Bonaparte
Khalil Gibran
George Will
Jean Paul
All authors
Today's birthdays
1919 - Iris Murdoch
1946 - Hassanal Bolkiah
1892 - Walter Benjamin
1991 - Penelope Mitchell
1949 - Richard Russo
1939 - Anibal Cavaco Silva
Today's birthdays
Popular professions
Author
Mathematician
Coach
Actress
Astronaut
Artist
All professions
Authors by letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
All authors
Topics
Top Quotes
Quotesia
Quote Topics
Aesthetic Quotes
Aesthetic Quotes
Traditional paintings have few figures in them and value negative space. Japanese calligraphy and brush paintings are in black and white. Haiku is the shortest poem form in the world. These are a few examples of a minimalistic aesthetic in Japanese art and culture.
Fumio Sasaki
Art
Culture
World
Space
Negative
Value
Black
Black And White
Few
White
Examples
Poem
Brush
Aesthetic
Traditional
Form
Japanese
Them
Shortest
Figures
Paintings
The central question driving literary aesthetics in the age of the iPad is no longer 'How should novels be?' but 'Why write novels at all?'
Garth Risk Hallberg
Age
Write
Driving
Longer
How
Aesthetic
iPad
Question
Literary
Central
Should
Novels
Why
I am a person who holds the aesthetic high. I have suits made in Savile Row.
Gary Kemp
Suits
Made
High
Am
Aesthetic
Person
Holds
Who
Row
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Gaston Bachelard
Lover
Imagination
Books
Object
Writer
Aesthetic
Offered
Literary
Doing any kind of culture in America in which you are not trying to affirm a European aesthetic is war.
George C. Wolfe
War
You
Culture
Kind
Aesthetic
Doing
Affirm
America
Trying
Any
Which
European
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
Good
Me
People
Think
About
Underdog
Like
Talk
Still
Aesthetic
Tradition
Sells
American
American People
Now
Right
Chance
My well-known aesthetic sense, which is so obvious and personal, spontaneously spurs me to challenge myself with different disciplines.
Giorgio Armani
Myself
Me
Challenge
Sense
Spontaneously
Obvious
Disciplines
Aesthetic
Spurs
Personal
Different
Which
For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm taking myself too seriously, but every artist should consider himself Picasso. Otherwise, you're doing yourself an injustice.
Giovanni Ribisi
Myself
Me
You
Injustice
Yourself
Seriously
Every
Too
Otherwise
Honing
Consider
About
Picasso
Taking
Himself
Aesthetic
Doing
Craft
Artist
Just
Want
Should
Acting
Keep
No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.
Goldwin Smith
History
Moral
See
More
Student
Fail
Aesthetic
Than
Any
Artist
Middle
Middle Ages
Interest
Ages
I'm attracted to the rag & bone aesthetic - classic and effortless with an edge.
Haley Bennett
Edge
Bone
Classic
Attracted
Aesthetic
Effortless
Rag
The beauty of a Moroccan riad is undeniable, but even the most die-hard fan may find herself growing a little weary of what can come to feel like a one-size-fits-all aesthetic: tilework, white Berber rugs, woolen tribal throw pillows in reds and ochers, cut-metal lanterns.
Hanya Yanagihara
Weary
Tribal
Beauty
White
Herself
Find
One-Size-Fits-All
Throw
Feel
Undeniable
Come
Like
Most
Aesthetic
Pillows
May
Fan
Little
Even
Growing
It's time for the aesthetics of upwardly mobile feminist respectability to make room for the aesthetics of survival, particularly trans survival.
Hari Nef
Time
Survival
Respectability
Particularly
Make
Aesthetic
Feminist
Mobile
Room
I like absurdist aesthetics. There's something about dream logic that's really fascinating, how it interweaves with narrative.
Hiro Murai
Dream
Logic
About
Something
Like
Narrative
How
Aesthetic
Really
Fascinating
I have always been drawn to fashion from an aesthetic and consumer standpoint. I honestly never thought that I could take my business training and apply it here. I worked in retail and was into fashion. It was something I liked, and people trusted my opinion.
Imran Amed
Fashion
Business
People
Training
Thought
Honestly
Drawn
Something
Could
Retail
Take
Consumer
Never
Liked
Opinion
Always
Aesthetic
Been
Trusted
Worked
Standpoint
Apply
Here
Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive.
Ira Glass
Me
Incredibly
Broadcast
Seem
Generally
Journalism
Primitive
Aesthetic
I do not create a fashionable aesthetic... I create a style based on life.
Issey Miyake
Life
Style
Aesthetic
Create
Fashionable
Based
There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
J. G. Ballard
Today
Achievement
People
Value
Think
Imagination
Possible
Logic
Touch
Greater
Aesthetic
Accompanied
Celebrity
Places
Means
Less
Actual
Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.
J. R. Moehringer
Some
Purely
Football
Look
How
Aesthetic
Doing
Manliness
Players
When you're talking about Tim Burton, you're talking about a guy that has such a visual sense, an aesthetic, a storytelling style. It's like he's got his own genre.
Jackie Earle Haley
You
Style
Own
Sense
Visual
About
Guy
He
Like
Genre
Talking
Got
Aesthetic
Tim
Tim Burton
His
Storytelling
Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data.
Jan Koum
Day
Writing
Intelligence
Better
Thought
Engineering
Every
Collect
Significant
Mining
Data
Ads
Advertising
Insults
Aesthetic
Sells
Train
Personal
Just
Tuning
Your
Team
Company
Code
Portion
Disruption
Interruption
I want big ideas to have aesthetic relevance. I want to tickle people's intellectual sensibilities and instill a sense of wonder.
Jason Silva
People
Big
Sense
Relevance
Instill
Ideas
Tickle
Aesthetic
Intellectual
Big Ideas
Wonder
Want
Sensibilities
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
Family
Hair
Easily
Members
More
Head
Like
Concerned
Make
Mastered
Aesthetic
Nor
Friends
Friends And Family
Sites
Family Members
Less
Who
Navigate
Applications
I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions.
Jeremy Northam
Best
Political
Debate
Drama
Kind
Moral
About
Arena
Idea
Liked
Also
Always
Stylistic
Aesthetic
Itself
Discussions
Just
Producing
Acts
Thing
The process of selecting the tone on the guitar is an aesthetic process like any other, so you try a lot of different things.
Jerry Garcia
You
Guitar
Try
Other
Selecting
Like
Aesthetic
Lot
Any
Different
Process
Different Things
Things
Tone
After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.
Jerry Saltz
Life
Art
New Life
Important
Appropriation
Seventies
Over
New
Aesthetic
Close
Decades
After
Breathed
Even
Now
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
Work
Art
Great
Become
Past
Enormous
Immaculate
Dated
New
Box
Sprawling
Aesthetic
Were
Years
Oppressive
York
New York
Spaces
Place
Fifteen
Large
Many
Paintings
Even
Designed
Load more quotes
No more aesthetic quotes
Haven't find the right quote? Try another of these similiar topics.
Affection
About
Argue
Describe