Quotes about Aesthetics

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

Refinement creates beauty everywhere: it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but grossness in the object.

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and takes captive.