Aesthetic Inspiring Quotes

I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.' ~ Victoria Legrand

Inspiring others is the pathway to your own discoveries ~ Robin Craig Clark

We like to juxtapose our music with a more dour aesthetic. ~ Matthew Healy

No one, especially not Birkhoff himself, would claim that the intricacies of aesthetic pleasure could be reduced entirely to a mere formula. However, in Birkhoff's words, "In the inevitable analytic accompaniment of the creative process, the theory of aesthetic measure is capable of performing a double service: it gives a simple, unified account of the aesthetic experience, and it provides means for the systematic analysis of typical aesthetic fields. ~ Mario Livio

My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons. ~ Peter Zumthor

There's no specific aesthetic other than a sense of the beautiful itself, I suppose. ~ Kristoffer Rygg

Being dead is the most airtight defense of one's own aesthetic. ~ Sarah Ruhl

I thought to discourage aesthetics ... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty. ~ Marcel Duchamp

A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense. ~ Bruno Munari

I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist. ~ Alan Parker

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally. ~ Stephen Gardiner

I would describe my aesthetic as definitely personal and harmonious with an eclectic yet bohemian sensibility. ~ Lisa Marie Presley

Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else. ~ Evelyn Waugh

I always just been a fan of the music ... and the aesthetic only in an abstract sense. ~ Colin Marston

Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical ~ Hermann Broch

I'm always interested in finding new aesthetic problems to deal with and challenge myself, even if the aesthetic problem is one of content. ~ Stephen Shore

I must write down that I am to be an artist. Not in the sense of aesthetic frippery but in the sense of aesthetic craftsmanship; otherwise I will feel my loneliness continually - like this today. The word craftsmanship takes care of the work angle & the word aesthetic the truth angle. ~ Flannery O'Connor

I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones. ~ Andres Serrano

I feel like a lot of my aesthetic was in response to feeling the awfulness and cheapness of that [ the 70'th]. ~ Daniel Clowes

To become what it is now art required a great sacrifice: the aesthetic paradigm that had given man all his most beautiful things. ~ Michael Shindler

Consider your house from an aesthetic point of view. ~ Anthea Turner

The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs. ~ Robert Schumann

It's just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style. ~ Yigal Azrouel

Of course it would depend on the project, but I don't think I could ever separate myself from my aesthetic. ~ Zack Snyder

The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession. ~ Thorstein Veblen

I'm kind of still down with Virg Woolf on this one: "women must kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have been 'killed' into art." ~ Lidia Yuknavitch

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being. ~ Luis Barragan

Aesthetic delectation is the danger to be avoided. ~ Marcel Duchamp

There's something about fear and aesthetic that go hand in hand. ~ Christopher Bollen

Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience. ~ Stewart Stafford

Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms. ~ Daniel Bell

My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

Think the highest thought you can think,
Feel into it, then expand it.
Do this every morning. ~ Blythe Ayne

There is a sinister anachronistic interpretation of the aesthetic state as some kind of totalitarian regime that puts aesthetic over moral standards; one associates it with national-socialism. But this has nothing to do with the romantics, whose ideal of the aesthetic state has much more to do with the republican tradition. ~ Frederick C. Beiser

Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art. ~ Fred Ross

Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms. ~ Chaim Potok

What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed. ~ Susan Griffin

It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account. ~ John Maus

I am a person who holds the aesthetic high. I have suits made in Savile Row. ~ Gary Kemp

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles ... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation. ~ Hans Hofmann

I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it. ~ Zack Snyder

Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic. ~ Beatrice Wood

I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable? ~ Ana Castillo

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression. ~ Evelyn Waugh

So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad. ~ Ron Perlman

My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters. ~ Mike White

You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to. ~ Romola Garai

Pragmatically, aesthetic value can be recognized or experienced, but it cannot be conveyed to those who are incapable of grasping its sensations and perceptions. To quarrel on its behalf is always a blunder. ~ Harold Bloom

But functional was not an aesthetic criterion that Flashjack, as a faery, had terribly high on his list of priorities; it was well below shiny and nowhere near weird. ~ Hal Duncan

We worship the aesthetic, but we do not have faith in it. ~ Mason Cooley

As for complicating the black metal aesthetic, I don't care about that since it was never a goal of mine to lay out any particular preconceived aesthetic, let alone one of traditional black metal where pseudonyms are adopted. ~ Colin Marston

I want big ideas to have aesthetic relevance. I want to tickle people's intellectual sensibilities and instill a sense of wonder. ~ Jason Silva

It's more interesting because you get to research the history of the period, and all the different aesthetic elements that make a film, particularly this film, so stunning. ~ Stanley Tucci

I love going somewhere like Japan where you can't understand a word of the advertising - you just see it for its aesthetic beauty, without feeling that you're being sold something. ~ Stanley Donwood

Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality. ~ John Dewey

Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression. ~ Karl Marx

The taste of the more recent accessions to the leisure class proper and of the middle and lower classes still requires a pecuniary beauty to supplement the aesthetic beauty, even in those objects which are primarily admired for the beauty that belongs to them as natural growths. ~ Thorstein Veblen

Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names. ~ Calvin Seerveld

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture. ~ Arne Jacobsen

The throat chakra is the center that is aesthetic. It gives an appreciation of beauty. ~ Frederick Lenz

In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic. ~ Joseph Altuzarra

Originality is another criterion of aesthetic value. We may formulate an originality principle, according to which highly valuable works of art provide hitherto unavailable insights ... Notice that, although originality is a necessary condition of high aesthetic value, it is far from a sufficient condition. Many original works have little or no aesthetic value. An artwork may present a novel but uninteresting perspective, or one that is original but wrong. ~ James Young

The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder. ~ Helena Christensen

It follows, then, that the aesthetic ideal of the categorical agreement with being is a world in which shit is denied and everyone acts as though it did not exist. This aesthetic ideal is called kitsch. ~ Milan Kundera

The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate. ~ Sebastiao Salgado

Facing the kitsch aesthetic is the unfathomable world of myths. ~ Saul Friedlander

I was also always interested in the aesthetic realm - architecture and that kind of stuff - but music was my first love. ~ St. Lucia

Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds ... flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism. ~ Ann Zwinger

The effortlessness of a performance for which great strength is needed is a spectacle of whose aesthetic beauty the East has an exceedingly sensitive and grateful appreciation. ~ Eugen Herrigel

I love that feeling of inspiring other women. ~ Cheryl Cole

I'm not about either entertaining or instructing. The entertaining and instructing are secondary fallout from the fundamental thing, which is basically to create an aesthetic object. ~ Samuel R. Delany

Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness. ~ Brian Sewell

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means. ~ J.G. Ballard

Evidence that [feminine aesthetic preferences and ways of expressing oneself] may be hardwired comes from the fact that they typically appear early in childhood and often in contradiction to one's socialization. [ ... ] This indicates that some aspects of feminine verbal and aesthetic expression precede and/or supersede gender socialization. ~ Julia Serano

I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique. ~ Edmund White

Dramas need to have a certain aesthetic that comedy just doesn't really seem to need to have. ~ Rob McElhenney

Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists. ~ Jerry Saltz

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic. ~ Clive Bell

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal. ~ Kazimir Malevich

Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying. ~ Tamsin Egerton

Inaudible prayers, particularly of the Canon, which at first don't seem to have anything to do with music, end up being a very important part of the aesthetic of the traditional structure of the Mass. ~ Richard Morris

There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake. ~ Bill Conti

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. ~ Seamus Heaney

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy. ~ Clive Bell

Any conversation I have with anybody that's real is always revealing and inspiring. ~ Spike Jonze

I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring. ~ Laurie Anderson

Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty. ~ Romola Garai

John Floridis was very inspiring. He plays so well. ~ Shawn Colvin

Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact. ~ John Szarkowski

Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. ~ Samuel

When I say Afro-American aesthetic, I'm not just talking about the United States, I'm talking about the Americas. People in the Latin countries read my books because they share the same international aesthetic that I'm into and have been into for a long time. And it's multicultural. ~ Ishmael Reed

For hard resets, conventions and conferences can be inspiring. ~ Kelly Sue DeConnick

If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression. ~ Asger Jorn

I don't make records that way, where I'm trying to please the marketplace or anything. Not because I have anything against that, it's just never been a part of my aesthetic, even when I was with the Pixies. ~ Frank Black

If I could be said to have any kind of aesthetic, it's sort of a magpie aesthetic - I just go and pick up whatever is around. If you think about it, the children were there, so I took pictures of my children. It's not that I'm interested in children that much or photographing them - it's just that they were there ... ~ Sally Mann

I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration. ~ Genevieve Gorder

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury. ~ Anish Kapoor

There is an aesthetic excitement about painting which is one of the most beautiful experiences that can be. Put things down while you feel that joy. ~ Charles Webster Hawthorne

The OWN network is all about inspiring and enlightening. ~ Kym Whitley