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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the feeling of being kind of overwhelmed is almost part of the aesthetic of the work.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ellison was prominent on the lecture circuit even in the Black Aesthetic days of the Sixties when his defiantly pro-American and prickly-proud intellectual act met with some hostility.
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I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually all I care about is how elegant or over-the-top the pieces are, it's nice to really get to understand what the customer wants and needs as opposed to just focusing on the aesthetic.
- Colorful
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Even before I had ever seen 'Beach Blanket Babylon,' I had a similar aesthetic: colorful and sparkly.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
In particular I want to talk about natural black hair, and how it's not just hair. I mean, I'm interested in hair in sort of a very aesthetic way, just the beauty of hair, but also in a political way: what it says, what it means.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had always wanted to expand to beauty, but I knew I wanted to be able to translate my design aesthetic in an authentic way.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my teaching, I try to expose my students to the widest range of aesthetic possibilities, so I'll offer them stories from Anton Chekhov to Denis Johnson, from Flannery O'Connor to A.M. Homes, and perhaps investigating all that strange variation of beauty has rubbed off on me. Or perhaps that's why I enjoy teaching literature.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The film is a direct mirror of the director. If your director doesn't know how to dress, there will be an aesthetic of the film that won't come through - whether it's in the costumes if he doesn't know exactly what he wants or the look of the film.
- Feathers
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I don't like a lot of feathers and frills. I like a clean aesthetic, a Calvin Klein aesthetic.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Mother
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I like to style myself, as my first job out of university was working at 'Vogue' magazine in NYC, and I grew up attending the collections with my mother, so I have a particular aesthetic, which is classic glamour with a twist.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my French side thinks of 'bohemian,' it imagines Montparnasse authors and absinthe - that kind of aesthetic. The American definition might be more tied to American history and culture.
- Home
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Design doesn't have to be daunting. Some people really find it challenging to take on their entire home, because they don't know their aesthetic; they don't know where they want to go.
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