- Nov 07, 2020
Aesthetic Quotes
The look, and the reasoning behind it.
One voice argues design is never just cosmetic, insisting relevance and ethics matter as much as visual appeal, while another prefers a personal style that feels effortless without losing shape. Related ideas continue in our Beauty collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to play a character. If I'm playing Cinderella or Aurora in 'Sleeping Beauty' or something like that, then I enjoy classical a lot. But to do just a two-minute solo, purely to show classical aesthetic, is not my favorite thing to do.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, there's more to aesthetic appearance than just race, but that is going to be the first thing that someone notices when they look at a picture.
- Compatibility
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.
- Kitchen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get nonplussed by all the Fifties retro-revival aesthetic. Would we really want to be in our pinnies in our kitchen weeping? I find the kitchen, housewifey aesthetic repugnant.
- Elastic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.
- Today
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to get the hip-hop aesthetic, most times without an MC. I don't use a rapper or a DJ to give it the hip-hop style; it's strictly the band that makes that music, which is a lot harder to do.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dramas need to have a certain aesthetic that comedy just doesn't really seem to need to have.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or misused but it'll also probably provide a way of people acknowledging what the aesthetic is about because people have to confront it every day.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
- Flower
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question: does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life?
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020