Quotes about Aesthetics

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well. Remark

You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art.

If the sphere of paradox-religion is abolished, or explained away in aesthetics, an Apostle becomes neither more nor less than a genius, and then--good night, Christianity! Esprit and the Spirit, revelation and originality, a call from God and genius, all end by meaning more or less the same thing.

The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of eye and mind for symmetry, harmony, and order.

Beauty is power.

When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.

Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential.

What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry - architecture being the least banal derivative of the latter.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm is one of the most inveterate of human instincts." -The Decoration of Houses

I guess because I came to it later in life, I realized, 'Oh, going to a fashion show is like going to the opening of Degas at the Met or going to see Swan Lake.'

The good, the true, and the beautiful are always their own best argument for themselves—by themselves—and in themselves.