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The degeneracy of mankind is distinguished from its uprise by the dominance of chill abstractions, divorced from aesthetic content. — Alfred North Whitehead

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. — Gaston Bachelard

I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration. — Alton Tobey

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

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

To be fully alive is to have an aesthetic perception of life because a major part of the world's goodness lies in its often unspeakable beauty. — Yukitaka Yamamoto

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

It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country. — Hector Hugh Munro

The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing. — Edward Dmytryk

Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it. — J.R. Moehringer

Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem. — Paul Nurse

Design is a matter of balancing different needs and outlooks-practical and aesthetic, masculine and feminine, designer and client, dream and reality. — Alexa Hampton

I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren. — Twyla Tharp

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

Human philosophy tends to shake down into values which might be categorized as intellectual, religious, moral, and aesthetic. — Dan Simmons

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

The aesthetic experience has to be given. And beauty is a regular experience of every person - every person who is not clinically depressed! — Peter Schjeldahl

Sounds kind of ad hoc and jerry-rigged and haphazard.' 'Everybody's a critic. This wasn't an aesthetic endeavor. — David Foster Wallace

Each season I strive to design a forward-thinking and effortless collection with a very clean minimalist aesthetic. — Francisco Costa

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade. — Manuel Puig

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

The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first. — John Maynard Keynes

So many pickles, so little time. — M.P.

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

The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship. — Havelock Ellis

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. — Edward O. Wilson

The collection under my name is an exciting opportunity to really express my own aesthetic and connect with a very different consumer. — Reed Krakoff

The last thing they want to hear is that math is really about raw creativity and aesthetic sensitivity. Many — Paul Lockhart

An Aesthetic Saint — J.D. Salinger

It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded. — Lewis Thomas

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation. — George Herbert Mead

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

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

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

Which even though we do have a very visual aesthetic and identity, we love it when people make their own videos to the music. — Lizzy Plapinger

I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values. — Antoni Tapies

The existence of the world is justified only as an aesthetic phenomenon. — Friedrich Nietzsche

With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome. — Ken Baumann

If I'm seeing you, you're going to influence me. I'm sorry - I'm just that way. I'm a big sponge. You can't copyright an aesthetic. — Douglas Carter Beane

To live well is to live in harmony with ourselves, others and nature, and that idea of harmony is, of course, an aesthetic one. — Frederick C. Beiser

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

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state. — John Kenneth Galbraith

In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness. — Clarice Lispector

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

While extroverts tend to attain leadership in public domains, introverts tend to attain leadership in theoretical and aesthetic fields. — Susan Cain

There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader. — A.S. Byatt

Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed. — James Russell Lowell

I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of literature. — Jonathan Kozol

I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do. — Pat Metheny

To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense. — Erasmus Darwin

The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons. — Ella Maillart

We all appreciated a certain aesthetic, and with that appreciation came a certain stylized presence. — Amber Heard

Cycling is based so much on form, on aesthetics, on class - the way you carry yourself on the bike, the sort of technique you have. — David Millar

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

My biggest thing is to teach not to focus on the aesthetic. It's really about who you are, and the human being, that makes you beautiful. — Beyonce Knowles

Appreciate the aesthetic and creativity of the nature and be grateful for being part of it. — M.F. Moonzajer

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech. — George Edward Woodberry

A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester. — Patti Smith

Besides the aesthetics, besides teaching an appreciation of T.S. Eliot, a basic need is fulfilled when you teach English at CUNY. — Billy Collins

Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Material Girl is about having your own personal style, and my personal style reflects the brand's aesthetic. — Georgia May Jagger

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

Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor. — Christopher Caudwell

Mars is not an aesthetic God. — John Brown Gordon

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

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

Art must always stand guard against stirring emotions that lie outside the aesthetic: sexual arousal, terror, disgust, shock. — Milan Kundera

Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive. — Ira Glass

We can tolerate great diversity in our aesthetic beliefs, but we can't tolerate much diversity in our moral beliefs. — Jonathan Haidt

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

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

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

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

In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one. — Tom Robbins

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual. — Friedrich Schiller

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

The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic. — Julian Barnes

Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language — Anthony Burgess

My hair is an aesthetic choice ... At the same time, how you wear your hair is a political statement as well. — Erykah Badu

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

Kitsch may be conveniently defined as a specifically aesthetic form of lying. — Matei Calinescu

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

I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic. — Spike Lee

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

Reality is not art, but a realist art is one that can create an integral aesthetic of reality. — Andre Bazin

My fascination for studies proved highly beneficial, it assisted the development of my aesthetic understanding of chess, and improved my endgame play. — Vasily Smyslov

Aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake. — Noah Kerner

Without the Indian Subcontinent, in other words, there could not have been a Vietnam in any cultural or aesthetic sense. — Robert D. Kaplan

My ideal is a book that is perfect on every page, that gives you tremendous aesthetic joy on every page. I suppose I am trying to write such a book. — James Salter

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians. — Alfred North Whitehead

The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks. — Harold Bloom

Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It's a conceptual art. — William H Gass

There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.' — Catherine Opie

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

Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like. — St. Vincent

All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war. — Walter Benjamin

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

There is a sort of aesthetic poverty about conservatism — Alan Hollinghurst

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

I love to read theories without ever using them when working ... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also true in reverse. — Ernst Haas