41 Aesthetic Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find amazing aesthetic quotes and sayings.
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Short Aesthetic Sayings
“Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness.” —Brian Sewell
“You can’t buy vision, and you can’t buy aesthetic.” —Travis Scott
“An artist’s concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.” —Kazuo Ishiguro
“You are beautiful as a rose.” —Unknown
“There is none more beautiful than the lover of beauty.” —Unknown
“All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.” —Walter Benjamin
“I believe that one of the most powerful things of all is aesthetics.” —Kalle Lasn
“All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.” —Susan Sontag
“Beauty may be dangerous, but intelligence is lethal.” —Unknown
“There is a sort of aesthetic poverty about conservatism.” —Alan Hollinghurst
Aesthetic Sayings
“I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.” —Miuccia Prada
“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.” —Sophia Loren
“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.” —Alfred North Whitehead
“Aesthetic sense is the twin of one’s instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics.” —Joseph Brodsky
“Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.” —Jimenez Lai
“It’s asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.” —Unknown
“Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art.” —Fred Ross
“In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.” —Clarice Lispector
“God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.” —William Shakespeare
“Domination has its own aesthetics, and democratic domination has its democratic aesthetics.” —Herbert Marcuse
“I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.” —Clive Howard Bell
“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
“Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.” —Asger Jorn
“Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.” —Daniel Tammet
“This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice.” —Asger Jorn
“Aesthetic considerations are a matter of luxury and indulgence rather than of necessity.” —Unknown
“Appreciate the aesthetic and creativity of the nature and be grateful for being part of it.” —M.F. Moonzajer
“As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.” —Arthur Cayley
“The goal changes from the general to the individual from need to wish, from ethics to aesthetics.” —Asger Jorn
Top Ten Aesthetic Sayings
Here you will find Top Ten aesthetic sayings selected by our team.
- “God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.” —William Shakespeare
- “There is none more beautiful than the lover of beauty.” —Unknown
- “Ethics and aesthetics are one.” —Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “You can’t buy vision, and you can’t buy aesthetic.” —Travis Scott
- “The aesthetic can have its revenge upon ideology by revealing a power to complicate that is also a power to undermine.” —Murray Krieger
- “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 always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.” —Miuccia Prada
- “As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.” —Arthur Cayley
- “Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.” —Sophia Loren
- “Aesthetic sense is the twin of one’s instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics.” —Joseph Brodsky
