Quotes about Aesthetics

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Think reds, orange, yellows, greens, purple, blue — the darker and deeper the colors, the better they are for you.

Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.

Why does God call people to be artists? Because he is an Artist, and we are made in his image. When we first meet the God of the Bible, he is busy making things and calling them good. Thus it is only natural for him to take some of the people that he has made, call them to be artists, and hold them to an aesthetic standard.

Goodness is both an ethical and an esthetic standard.

I am a thing of beauty.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

We are so made that we soon grow weary of ornament for sake of ornament, and even of beauty that makes no appeal to the heart or the understanding.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

The secret of ugliness consists of not irregularity, but in being uninteresting

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your children forever.