“In aesthetic theory it might be extremely difficult, if not quite impracticable, to draw a line between the canon of classicism, or regard for the archaic, and the canon of beauty.” IfsMightDifficultLinesTheoryDrawsRegardAestheticCanonClassicism Book:A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism Source: A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism
“What was needed was a literary theory which, while preserving the formalist bent of New Criticism, its dogged attention to literature as aesthetic object rather than social practice, would make something a good deal more systematic and 'scientific' out of all this. The answer arrived in 1957, in the shape of the Canadian Northrop Fryes mighty 'totalization' of all literary genres, Anatomy of Criticism .” LiteratureSocialAnswersDealsAttentionPracticeObjectsTheoryNeededShapesCriticismGenreAestheticBentSystematicAnatomyLiterary TheoryLiterary Genre Book:Literary Theory: An Introduction Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction
“I'm steeped in aesthetic theory, so I tend to bring in my own amateurish way of baring a little bit - when, in practice, I'm not thinking about that when I'm working over the keyboard, or musing over musical ideas in my head. But when discussing it, we want to have some new thought about this new music.” ThinkingWayWantLittlesIdeasBitsMy OwnPracticeTheoryLittle BitMusicalAestheticNew ThoughtDiscussingKeyboardsNew MusicMusings Author:John Maus
“I don't spend time thinking about an aesthetic out of which I create or an ideal toward which my body of work is heading. It's amazing, when I read interviews with other poets, to see how articulately they discuss their own writing, as if they were sharing long-held theories on the work of Pope or Keats. I'm happy enough that I've poured the best of myself into the poems themselves.” IfsThinkingWritingLongEnoughBodyPoetTheoryIdealsInterviewsAestheticPopeEnd TimesSpend TimeHeadings Author:Albert Goldbarth
“Two centuries ago Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematicians and a founder of number theory, described his brainchild as "the queen of mathematics." Queens are regal, but they are also largely decorative, and this nuance was not lost on Gauss.” ArtTwoLostNumbersBeautyCenturyTheoryMathematicsQueensAestheticFoundersMathematicianNuanceRegal Author:Ian Stewart
“I love to read theories without ever using them when working... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also true in reverse.” FactsTheoryAestheticReverseParadoxicalLove To Read Author:Ernst Haas
“Most of Marx's predictions have failed to materialize, and his labor theory of value and other ideas have been proven wrong. Marx failed to recognize the incentive system built into the capitalist model - consumer choice and the profit motive of the entrepreneur. The irony is that capitalism, not socialism or Marxism, that has liberated the worker from the chains of poverty, monopoly, war, and oppression, and has better achieved Marx's vision of a millennium of hope, peace, abundance, leisure, and aesthetic expression for the 'full' human being.” HumansHas BeensIdeasWarValuesChoicesHuman BeingsVisionPovertyExpressionTheoryModelsCapitalismBuiltLaborEntrepreneurWorkersProfitSocialismOppressionChainsConsumersIronyMotiveAbundanceAestheticCapitalistLeisureProvenPredictionsIncentivesMonopolyMarxismLiberatedMillenniumProfit MotiveProven WrongConsumer Choice Author:Mark Skousen
“Don't get seduced by your own stuff. Don't get high on your own supply. The hardest thing as a filmmaker is when you're watching a film that you've worked on for several years. You know every frame so intimately that holding lots of the objectivity of a new viewer who has just seen it for the first time is the hardest thing. Every aesthetic decision you make - and you make thousands of them every day, have to - in theory, must be done from you being a blank slate. You almost have to run a program, like a mind wipe, every time you watch the movie.” KnowsYearsMindFirstsDoneRunningFilmStuffDecisionWatchesTheoryFirst TimeProgramHardestFilmmakerAestheticBlankViewersHardest ThingWipeObjectivityGetting HighSlateDecisions You MakeBlank Slates Author:James Cameron
“It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account.” ImportantTheoryAccountsAesthetic Author:John Maus