Quotes about Aesthetics
A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts.
- Joseph Addison
There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
- Joseph Addison
When we raise our game aesthetically, we elevate it morally and spiritually as well.
- Steven Pressfield
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.
- Oscar Wilde
If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
- Bill Gates
Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.
- Steve Jobs
In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.
- Steve Jobs
A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason.
- Pope Benedict XVI
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
I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.
- John Malkovich