- Perfection
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- 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
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not good at finding 'encouraging' features in American culture. I doubt that aesthetic literacy has much of a future here.
- Buildings
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two-dimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sans-serifs, and geometrics; which abstracts, transforms, translates, rotates, dilates, repeats, mirrors, groups, and regroups, is not good design if it is irrelevant.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.
- Compromise
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- Nov 07, 2020
No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.
- Choices
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Confused
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- Nov 07, 2020
O.P.N. has always been about reaching for some kind of liminal state in which opposing aesthetic forces become entangled and confused and equal.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that it wasn't something to allow herself.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020