- No Sense
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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
- Far Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
For reasons historic, aesthetic, and political, we Jews are most attuned to the anti-Semitism of the far Right - and we find the most sympathy among our progressive allies when these are our attackers.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ezra Pound was a pioneer of the most exciting aesthetic movement of the 20th century.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an aesthetic empiricist. If you like something, it doesn't matter who made it. There really is no objective standard other than your own taste. You develop your own tastes, you find things that do or do not fit your tastes, and therefore are or are not 'good.' Whether they have been labeled as produced by the right person is another matter.
- Coming
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually taught perceptual psychology at N.Y.U. when I was younger. I was interested in the aesthetic impulse in lower primates. But what really interested me in Dian Fossey was that she made a difference - she saved the gorillas.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a huge fan of Bruce Springsteen, and it's certainly not because of his politics. I just don't like the aesthetic.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard with ballet because your aesthetic really is important. It's different from acting and from film. Nobody wants to watch somebody who is sickly thin. And it's interesting because I have danced with people who are ill, have eating disorders, and a light goes off within them.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020