Quotes about Aesthetics

When we raise our game aesthetically, we elevate it morally and spiritually as well.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.

I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason.

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.

That is one reason why I did not like the pictures here, dear uncle—which you think me stupid about. I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false

so much that seems to me a consecration of ugliness rather than beauty.

Hippodamus, the son of Euruphon a Milesian, contrived the art of laying out towns, and separated the Pireus. This man was in other respects too eager after notice, and seemed to many to live in a very affected manner, with his flowing locks and his expensive ornaments, and a coarse warm vest which he wore, not only in the winter, but also in the hot weather.