Quotes about Aesthetics
In practice I think it's easier to see ugliness than to imagine beauty. Most of the people who've made beautiful things seem to have done it by fixing something they thought ugly.
- Paul Graham
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
- George Bernard Shaw
He who loses the arts loses the culture.
- Francis Schaeffer
Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
- Oscar Wilde
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
- Oscar Wilde
Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.
- Aldous Huxley
There is a great amity between designing and art.
- Joseph Addison
Art should never be popular.
- Oscar Wilde
In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
- Victor Hugo
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
- Joseph Addison
If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson