Quotes about Aesthetics

Art is the effort to appreciate and express the God who is its Beauty.

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Says John Updike, 'Serifs exist for a purpose. They help the eye pick up the shape of the letter. Piquant in little amounts, sanserif in page-size sheets repels readership as wax paper repels water; it has a sleazy, cloudy look.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

I'm a lover and consumer of beauty.

Think reds, orange, yellows, greens, purple, blue — the darker and deeper the colors, the better they are for you.

Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.

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.

Goodness is both an ethical and an esthetic standard.

I am a thing of beauty.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.