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“The changing styles are the expression of a restless search for something which shall commend itself to our aesthetic sense; but as each innovation is subject to the selective action of the norm of conspicuous waste, the range within which innovation can take place is somewhat restricted. The innovation must not only be more beautiful, or perhaps oftener less offensive, than that which it displaces, but it must also come up to the accepted standard of expensiveness.”

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Book:A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism

Source: A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism

“The subject may be of first importance to the artist when he starts a picture, but it should be of least importance in the finished product. The subject is of no aesthetic significance.”

Should Firsts May Artist Subjects Products Importance Finished Significance Aesthetic

Author:John French Sloan

“Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.”

Should Individual Quality Subjects Development Concerned Aesthetic Phases

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“I have tried to draw the human effigy (and all the other subjects dealt with in my paintings) in an immediate and effective way without any reference to the aesthetic.”

Way Humans Subjects Painting Draws Aesthetic

Author:Jean Dubuffet

“Perhaps the central question about [Eliot] Porter's work is about the relationship between science, aesthetics, and environmental politics. His brother, the painter and critic Fairfield Porter, wrote in a 1960 review of [Porter's] colour photographs: 'There is no subject and background, every corner is alive,' and this suggests what an ecological aesthetic might look like.”

Looks Might Alive Subjects Brother Critics Environmental Photograph Corners Backgrounds Painter Colour Reviews Aesthetic 1960s Aesthetics Ecological Eliot

Author:Rebecca Solnit