Quotes about Aesthetics
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Goodness is both an ethical and an esthetic standard.
— Philip Graham Ryken
Why does God call people to be artists? Because he is an Artist, and we are made in his image. When we first meet the God of the Bible, he is busy making things and calling them good. Thus it is only natural for him to take some of the people that he has made, call them to be artists, and hold them to an aesthetic standard.
— Philip Graham Ryken
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
— Victor Hugo
Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.
— Charles Spurgeon
We are so made that we soon grow weary of ornament for sake of ornament, and even of beauty that makes no appeal to the heart or the understanding.
— Dorothy Sayers
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
— Joseph Addison
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a great amity between designing and art.
— Joseph Addison
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
— Victor Hugo
Beauty is in the eye of the Creator.
— AW Tozer
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
— Victor Hugo