A Quotes
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“Aesthetic culture is not the high-road to all the virtues, and, indeed, certain of the vices have been known to infest it. Neither, on the other hand, is there any special grace in ugliness. Art is only utterance. It must express something; and the vital question is, what does it express?”
“Aesthetic delectation is the danger to be avoided.”
“Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.”
Source: Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913
“Aesthetic is so very important now, to the point where women spend literally hours a day every day reapplying the lie that is the fake hair, fake make up, fake lotion, fake tan, fake everything. Everything’s fake, because a competitive market exists, and everyone out there is fake, so you need to be fake too in order to keep up.”
Source: sciVive
“Aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake.”
“Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.”
“Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names.”
“Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.”
“Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it's very important for the spirit and therefore the health.”
“Aesthetic pleasure needs no justification, because a life without such pleasure is one not worth living.”
Source: Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture
“Aesthetic racism is almost always a sign of inexperience. Those who have not made their way far enough into the world of amorous delights judge women only by what can be seen. But those who really know women understand that the eye reveals only a minute fraction of what a woman can offer us. When God bade mankind be fruitful and multiply, Doctor, He was thinking of the ugly as well as of the beautiful. I am convinced I might add, that the aesthetic criterion does not come from God but from the devil. In paradise no distinction was made between ugliness and beauty.”
“Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.”
Source: The letters of Evelyn Waugh
“Aesthetically, I don't really like the blond, tan thing. I am pale. So I may as well embrace the pale. Long, blond hair and a bad spray tan is the stuff of my nightmares.”
“Aesthetically, I love the whole history of the music.”
“Aestheticism and radicalism must lead us to jettison reason, and to replace it by a desperate hope for political miracles. This irrational attitude which springs from intoxication with dreams of a beautiful world is what I call Romanticism. It may seek its heavenly city in the past or in the future; it may preach 'back to nature' or 'forward to a world of love and beauty'; but its appeal is always to our emotions rather than to reason. Even with the best intentions of making heaven on earth it only succeeds in making it a hell - that hell which man alone prepares for his fellow-men.”
Source: The Open Society and Its Enemies
“Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life.”
“Aestheticism is the garbage of intuitive feeling.”
“Aesthetics does not exist for the camera as an isolated entity. Aesthetics, in fact, is inseparable from the purpose of the photographer and the use he makes of his theme. When photography fails... it is usually because a false separation has been imposed on form and content.”
“Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take aesthetic communication, and aesthetic pleasure, seriously. We, their customers, demand it.”
Source: The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness
“Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences in terms of one’s feelings of self-worth and one’s capacity to be a political agent.”
“Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.”
“Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.”
“Aesthetics is not an end in itself. But in our culture, which is becoming more multi-sensory and less respectful of God, we have a responsibility to pay attention to the design of the space where we assemble regularly. In the emerging culture, darkness represents spirituality. We see this in Buddhist temples, as well as Catholic and Orthodox churches. Darkness communicates that something serious is happening.”
“Aesthetics is the alignment of symmetry, proportions & harmony”
“Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.”
“AESTHETICS OF COMEDY ASLEEP
Don’t wake the clown
Or he may knock you down.”
Source: The Collected Poems
“AESTHETICS OF INTEGRITY
For every star in the sky
Someone is holding his ground.”
Source: The Collected Poems
“Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.”
“Af en toe levensgrote paranoia creëren verleent aan een tocht een bepaalde, aantrekkelijke dimensie, die mij soms aanzet de gekste situaties te bedenken.”
Source: Brieven
“Afasto-me para me juntar à terra, para sentir o seu coração pulsar, para me deixar embalar nessa palpitação.”
Source: Sempiterno
“AFC Leopards were as thrilling a side as ever took the pitch and they dominated East African football in the eighties. That Kenyan players were an excitable bunch was attested to in one memorable Leopards match, with the opposing goalkeeper being handcuffed and dragged away to jail by police.”
Source: Tick Bite Fever
“AFC Wimbledon in the League! Talk about the ashes rising from the flames.”
“Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,--I mean good-nature,--are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden: With Life and Critical Dissertation
“Affaires meant 'business.' How like the French to kill two birds with one stone.”
Source: The Eight
“Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.”
Source: Æsop's Fables: a new version ... By Thomas James ... With ... illustrations, designed by John Tenniel
“Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Affairs are like a seventh day. They are a break from all duties and obligations and responsibilities. I'm not saying this is right and I'm not saying it lightly. This is just how they are. You can't be responsible when you're with your lover. And since you already know you're way out of line, you go the extra distance. You throw yourself in headfirst. You become the very personification of irresponsible. You are way alive. Every detail sings. It would be a great way to live if it weren't so ruinous.”
“Affairs are loaded with romanticism, morality, mythology, and intense emotions. They're not really about sex, but about pain and fear and the desire to feel alive. They're also about betrayal.”
“Affairs began, drama spread, and traditional, good-old-boy camaraderie was tainted by the temptresses who represented the inconvenience of feminism.”
Source: Just Another Number
“Affairs can be powerful detonators. They can invigorate a marriage that's flat, jolt people out of years of complacency. Fear of loss rekindles desire, makes people have conversations they haven't had in years, takes them out of their contrived illusion of safety.”
“Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.”
“Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they begin, and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement.”
“Affairs of the heart are entitled to some confidentiality.”
Source: Stella Maris
“Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.”
“Affairs, ... , like everything else, ask too much.”
“Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.”
Source: The Improvement of the Mind
“Affect not to despise beauty: no one is freed from its dominion; But regard it not a pearl of price--it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds.”
“Affect not to set out your thoughts with curious neat language. Be neither a great talker, nor a great undertaker; be one who for his word or actions needs neither an oath, nor any man to be a witness.”
Source: Marcus Aurelius
“Affect the main character or characters and you win the game.”
“Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, a four-volume work so dense that its readers were evenly divided between those who understood it and thought it was brilliant and those who did not understand it and thought it was brilliant.”