Quotes about Aesthetics
Beauty is power.
— Anonymous
When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential.
— Thomas Watson, Jr.
What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.
— Edith Wharton
There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry - architecture being the least banal derivative of the latter.
— Edith Wharton
The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm is one of the most inveterate of human instincts." -The Decoration of Houses
— Edith Wharton
I guess because I came to it later in life, I realized, 'Oh, going to a fashion show is like going to the opening of Degas at the Met or going to see Swan Lake.'
— Kerry Washington
The good, the true, and the beautiful are always their own best argument for themselves—by themselves—and in themselves.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Art is the effort to appreciate and express the God who is its Beauty.
— William Temple
Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.
— William Wordsworth
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
— William Wordsworth
Says John Updike, 'Serifs exist for a purpose. They help the eye pick up the shape of the letter. Piquant in little amounts, sanserif in page-size sheets repels readership as wax paper repels water; it has a sleazy, cloudy look.
— David Ogilvy