“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.” GivingHumansChildrenArtLife IsLyingNamesBuildingOur ChildrenBeachYour ChildrenAestheticSophisticatedBeing HumanHumanisticSandcastles Author:Calvin Seerveld
“The throat chakra is the center that is aesthetic. It gives an appreciation of beauty.” GivingBuddhismAppreciationThroatAestheticChakra Author:Frederick Lenz
“Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.” GivingHomeRichGive MeStressArchitectureCirclesEaseKneesArchitectAestheticClientsStrainAestheticsHordeDomesArchitecture DesignArchitecture And Art Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“We must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and esthetic values as we now give to science, to invention, to practical organization. One without the other is impotent.” GivingValuesEmotionMoralExpressionOrganizationWeightPracticalsInventionAestheticArousal Author:Lewis Mumford
“Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain the feelings; art seeks to define them by externalizing them, by giving them significant form. Morality has only one aim - the ideal good; art has quite another aim - the objective truth... art never changes.” GivingHumansHas BeensArtFeelingsFormValuesSocialMoralMoralityArt IsIdealsAimSignificantObjectivesAestheticNever ChangeSubordinatesGood ArtHuman ValuesMoral ValuesObjective TruthSocial Values Author:Herbert Read