Quotes about Aesthetics
I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.
- Oscar Wilde
And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
- Victor Hugo
Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization.
- Robert Barron
Beauty is in the eye of the Creator.
- AW Tozer
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
- Oscar Wilde
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many.
- CS Lewis
Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
You can make them so small that they almost disappear, but I think headlights are also part of the face of a car.
- Henrik Fisker
Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.
- DH Lawrence
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
- DH Lawrence