Quotes about Aesthetics

We are so made that we soon grow weary of ornament for sake of ornament, and even of beauty that makes no appeal to the heart or the understanding.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

The secret of ugliness consists of not irregularity, but in being uninteresting

If I had had plastic surgery, I would have asked for something better than the face you are seeing! I actually really hate plastic surgery when it's just for aesthetics and anti-ageing. I think ageing is beautiful and expressive and characterful.

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your children forever.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

Refinement creates beauty everywhere: it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but grossness in the object.

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and takes captive.