Quotes about Aesthetics
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid.
— Oscar Wilde
The only beautiful things, as somebody once said, are the things that do not concern us. As long as a thing is useful or necessary to us...it is outside the proper sphere of art.
— Oscar Wilde
Better to take pleasure in a rose than to put its root under a microscope.
— Oscar Wilde
And unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are all wall-eyed.
— DH Lawrence
If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Taste is the common sense of genius.
— Victor Hugo
By nature, men desire the beautiful.
— St. Basil
The beautiful is just as useful as the useful.
— Victor Hugo
Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass! The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass! It is the second tear that makes kitsch kitsch. The brotherhood of man on earth wil be possible on a basis of kitsch.
— Milan Kundera
What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring
— Soren Kierkegaard
A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts.
— Joseph Addison
There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
— Joseph Addison