“The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.” ThinkingHumansIdeasValuesGivenWalkingActivityCommunicateArchitectureAestheticRootedHuman ActivityAdded Value Author:Thom Mayne
“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
“It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage” ShouldHumansWellsReasonDealsAskingAppealsAestheticBondageHuman Bondage Book:Of Human Bondage Source: Of Human Bondage
“There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms of human activity. Whoever creates new artistic conventions has found methods of interchange between people about matters which were incommunicable before. The capacity to do this has been the basis of the whole of human history.” PeopleHumansHas BeensMatterWholeFormFoundCasesCreationActivityCapacityBasesMethodArtisticProductiveConventionsAestheticOriginalityHuman HistoryHuman ActivityInterchange Author:John Zachary Young
“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