When art as an expression starts to appear, without prompting, all over the suburbs and villages of this country, what we are saying is: we are confident enough to create our own living, our own entertainment, our own aesthetic. Such an aesthetic wil...
Perhaps the central question about [Eliot] Porter's work is about the relationship between science, aesthetics, and environmental politics. His brother, the painter and critic Fairfield Porter, wrote in a 1960 review of [Porter's] colour photographs:...
Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.
I like the aesthetics of the Church.
I don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me.
Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
Literature is one kind of aesthetic politics.
I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.
If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of the soul, as a release from constraint and restriction, in short to consider that art does actually alleviate the most overpowering and tra...
Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the phenomenon known as aesthetic emotion...Life on its own, without art to shape it, leaves you in confusion and chaos,...
Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises out of memory, and so (as Nietzsche saw) out of pain, the pain of surrendering easier pleasur...
People define themselves aesthetically at a very young age.
I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.
For the record, I do have genitals; and they are functional and aesthetically pleasing.
Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.
I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
The Indians have such strong traditions and aesthetics, and the people are beautiful, as are their goods.
Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive.
I will always come with something that's aesthetically pleasing.
