Quotes about Esthetics

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Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn — Hiromu Arakawa, Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1
God's pleasure--the beauty creation possesses in his regard--underlies the distinct being of creation, and so beauty is — David Bentley Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth
I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object — Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn
The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art. — Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory
Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it. — Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory
Finer feeling, which we now wish to consider, is chiefly of two kinds: the feeling of the *sublime* and that of the *bea — Immanuel Kant, Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime
In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness. — Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
They walked on rather aimlessly. He hoped she wouldn't notice he was touched, because he wouldn't have known how to expl — Patrick White, The Vivisector
I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art. — Kamand Kojouri
At last everything was satisfactorily arranged, and I could not help admiring the setting: these mingled touches betraye — August Strindberg, Madman's Defence
What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely t — Murray Gell-Mann
[Hegel’s] system of nature seemed, at least to natural philosophers, absolutely crazy….Hegel…launched out with particula — Hermann von Helmholtz, Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays
He had never believed that spirituality had to be anemic or aesthetic. — Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo
The goal of all principled people is to recognize truth. Simple or complex thoughts and feelings standing alone rarely e — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war. — Walter Benjamin
There is a sort of aesthetic poverty about conservatism — Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. — Sophia Loren
It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body. — Charlaine Harris, Dead Until Dark
Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful t — Louis de Bernières, Corelli's Mandolin
Desire for beauty will endure and undermine the desire for truth. — Richard O. Prum, The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - And Us