Aesthetics is the philosophical study of beauty. Beauty is important in our life because it is representative of our values. And values define our actions through life. Profoundly inspirational aesthetic quotes will enrich your perspective, brighten your soul and bring the best out of you.
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Famous Aesthetic Quotes
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. Sophia Loren
Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds. Barnett Newman
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. Elisabeth Kübler Ross
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. Oscar Wilde
Nothing is beautiful, only man on this piece of naiveté rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second nothing is ugly but degenerate man the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. Friedrich Nietzsche
The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational radically darkened art. Theodor W. Adorno
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. Edgar Allan Poe
Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds. Jimenez Lai
Beauty is strangely various. There is the beauty of light and joy and strength exulting; but there is also the beauty of shade, of sorrow and sadness, and of humility oppressed. Arnold Bennett
I think the New Aesthetic is a series of observations. I think most of the trouble people have had with it comes from a misunderstanding of it as a movement. Warren Ellis
We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.. Jun’ichirō Tanizaki
Even a colour-sense is more important, in the development of the individual, than a sense of right and wrong. Aesthetics, in fact, are to Ethics in the sphere of conscious civilisation, what, in the sphere of the external world, sexual is to natural selection. Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sexual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change. Oscar Wilde
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. Alfred North Whitehead
Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again. Ben Shneiderman
Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences in terms of one’s feelings of self worth and one’s capacity to be a political agent. Cornel West
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind. Clive Bell
I think that’s what art is art is communication made in the hope that interesting miscommunications will arise. Misha Glouberman
Nothing is beautiful, only man on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second nothing is ugly but degenerate man the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. Friedrich Nietzsche
Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds. Jimenez Lai
What comes from sorrow, watered by tears, grows something of beauty. A salt garden. And so this I leave behind. A harvest for those who find their way into my life and I into theirs. Cindy McCormick Martinusen
I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who appreciate beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There’s no such thing. I never appreciate, any more than I like I love, or I hate. Pablo Picasso
Nothing’s perfect, the world’s not perfect. But it’s there for us, trying the best it can; that’s what makes it so damn beautiful. Hiromu Arakawa
To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. Arthur Conan Doyle
I don’t need to be so full of myself that I feel I am without flaw. I can feel beautiful and imperfect at the same time. I have a healthy relationship with my aesthetic insecurities. Lupita Nyong’o
Refinement creates beauty everywhere it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but grossness in the object. William Hazlitt
It’s just my aesthetic to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style. Yigal Azrouel
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. Rabindranath Tagore
Refinement creates beauty everywhere it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but grossness in the object. William Hazlitt
Beauty is the illumination of your soul. John O’Donohue
There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty. Steve Maraboli
Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see. George W. Russell
People accuse me of falling in love easily. It just means that I’m able to see the beauty in most of the people who cross paths with me and I appreciate it for what it is and also for what it isn’t. Love is imperfect. Falling for someone’s flaws is just as necessary as falling for their strengths. Ashly Lorenzana
Nothing’s perfect, the world’s not perfect. But it’s there for us, trying the best it can; that’s what makes it so damn beautiful. Hiromu Arakawa
Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups, and down, but that’s its beauty. Amit Ray
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt. Beauty is the shadow of imperfection. Simon Van Booy
Beauty is sometimes born of pain. Sheri L. Swift
Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgment are permanent. Roger Scruton
Rules of taste enforce structures of power. Susan Sontag
The line of beauty is the line of beauty. It doesn’t matter if it’s been through the Xerox machine a hundred times. Donna Tartt
Aestheticism is the garbage of intuitive feeling. Kazimir Severinovich Malevich
Any great art work revives and re-adapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. Leonard Bernstein
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. Lady Blessington
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. Sophia Loren
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. Oscar Wilde
My well known aesthetic sense, which is so obvious and personal, spontaneously spurs me to challenge myself with different disciplines. Giorgio Armani
In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity. Baruch Spinoza
Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics. Dave Eggers
Desire for beauty will endure and undermine the desire for truth. Richard O. Prum
We all appreciated a certain aesthetic, and with that appreciation came a certain stylized presence. Amber Heard
Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech. George Edward Woodberry
Design is about the betterment of our lives poetically, aesthetically, experientially, sensorially, and emotionally. Karim Rashid
For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through. Steve Jobs
I believe that one of the most powerful things of all is aesthetics. Kalle Lasn
Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgment are permanent. Roger Scruton
Aesthetics rather than reason shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. Thinking in Numbers is not about an attempt to impress the reader but to include the reader, draw the reader in, by explaining my experiences the beauty I feel in a prime number, for example. Daniel Tammet
All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation. Susan Sontag
What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant. Murray Gell Mann
An artist’s concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it. Kazuo Ishiguro
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game. Octavio Paz
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well. Albert Einstein
It’s hard to combine a simple life with a love of aesthetics. Marty Rubin
What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant. Murray Gell Mann
Aesthetically, London is just beautiful; it’s a gorgeous city. The architecture, monuments, the parks, the small streets it’s an incredible place to be. Sara Bareilles
It’s better to have a hunger and appreciation for beauty than to be merely beautiful. In the end, life is richer that way. She may learn that. Susan Vreeland
Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people. Shepard Fairey
At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough. Toni Morrison
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art. Remy de Gourmont
The aesthetic can have its revenge upon ideology by revealing a power to complicate that is also a power to undermine. Murray Krieger
I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty. Miuccia Prada
Any great art work revives and re adapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. Leonard Bernstein
Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art. Fred Ross
I think it’s more accurate to think of aesthetics as a key ingredient in a recipe, as opposed to the icing on the cake. Stephen P. Anderson
I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic. Clive Howard Bell
I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique. Edmund White
You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful. Amy Bloom
Art is restoration the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented which is what fear and anxiety do to a person into something whole. Louise Bourgeois
You may be one person to the world but you may also be the world to one person. Audrey Hepburn
When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection. Agnes Martin
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it. Richard Bach
I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to the reasons why life is beautiful. Kelli O’Hara
This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before. Maya Angelou
Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it. Alice Walker
All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war. Walter Benjamin
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. Earl Nightingale
In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness. Clarice Lispector
Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth. Menachem Begin
Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters. Jack McDevitt
To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it. Osho
The power of nature is such that it’s what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of the planet, the more our art can benefit from that relationship. Rick Rubin
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. Edgar Allan Poe
In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one. Tom Robbins
For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through. Steve Jobs
It’s hard to combine a simple life with a love of aesthetics. Marty Rubin
I don’t think I have a sense of fashion. But I do have an aesthetic, which I feel is an offshoot of me working in the design industry. For example, if I am mixing and matching prints on my sofas and cushion covers, I tend to do that with my wardrobe as well. Twinkle Khanna
To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation. George Herbert Mead
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic. Beatrice Wood.
Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process. Paul Rand
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. Seamus Heaney
The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life? Richard P. Feynman
Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which the aesthetic ideal finds its direct expression. Karl Marx.
If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty. Piet Mondrian
When you’re talking about Tim Burton, you’re talking about a guy that has such a visual sense, an aesthetic, a storytelling style. It’s like he’s got his own genre. Jackie Earle Haley
If you are living a life that feels right to you, if you’re willing to take creative chances or a creative path that feels like it’s mostly in keeping with your sensibilities, you know, aesthetic and artistic, then that’s what matters. Tracy Chapman
Behind the aesthetic form lies the repressed harmony of sensuousness and reason. Herbert Marcuse
One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one’s life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury. Anish Kapoor
