Aesthetic Quotes - page 3

You are not traditionally beautiful; and you know it. We women do. But what most people mean by beauty is really a kind of aesthetic acceptability, not so much character as a lack of it, a set of features and lineaments that hide their history, that suggest history itself does not exist. But the template by which we recognize the features and forms in the human body that cause the heart to halt, threatening to spill us over into the silence of death-that is drawn on another part of the soul entirely...But all sing, chant, hymn the history of the body, if only because we all know how people regard bodies that deviate from the lauded and totally abnormal norm named beauty. Most of us would rather not recognize such desires in ourselves and thus avoid all contemplation of what the possession of such features means about the lives, the bodies, the histories of others, preferring instead to go on merely accepting the acceptable. But that is not who I am. (Samuel R. Delany)
A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are. View quote
Steve Berry
An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt. View quote
Antonio Tabucchi
You can't buy vision, and you can't buy aesthetic. View quote
Travis Scott
I find it breathtaking [...] that when musical composition competitions are held, the contestants often do not submit tapes or records (or live performances) of their works they submit written scored, and the judges confidently make their aesthetic judgements on the basis of just reading the scores and hearing the music in their minds. How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound? View quote
Daniel Dennett
Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according to relevance or irrelevance. View quote
Jane Smiley
Of course it would depend on the project, but I don't think I could ever separate myself from my aesthetic. View quote
Zack Snyder
I would describe my aesthetic as definitely personal and harmonious with an eclectic yet bohemian sensibility. View quote
Lisa Marie Presley
It's for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can't afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it - a little bit of me or a lot of me, that's what's important. View quote
Vera Wang
Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts us from attending to genuine issues of linguistic style in writing. View quote
John McWhorter
My manager got the script for Under the Dome, and I read it and just fell in love with the character. I grew up on Stephen King, and I love his whole aesthetic of the classic American story with supernatural events happening, so it just made sense. (Alexander Koch)
It's hard with ballet because your aesthetic really is important. It's different from acting and from film. Nobody wants to watch somebody who is sickly thin. And it's interesting because I have danced with people who are ill, have eating disorders, and a light goes off within them. View quote
Amanda Schull
I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones. View quote
Andres Serrano
In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture. View quote
Arne Jacobsen
The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself. View quote
Arthur Erickson
Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad. View quote
Arthur Erickson
That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done. View quote
Adam Savage
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic. View quote
Beatrice Wood
I had always wanted to expand to beauty, but I knew I wanted to be able to translate my design aesthetic in an authentic way. View quote
Charlotte Ronson
The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons. View quote
Ella Maillart
No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest. (Goldwin Smith)
I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration. View quote
Genevieve Gorder
The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder. View quote
Helena Christensen
I'm definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up was in being around that kind of thing, and it's just what sinks into a person's brain. View quote
Jhonen Vasquez
In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic. View quote
Joseph Altuzarra