“The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold fact that In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust, is better than A Shore Thing, by Snooki. And it may be; Snooki definitely has more one-star reviews on Amazon. But if literary value is real, no one seems to be able to locate it or define it very well. We're increasingly adrift in a grey void of aesthetic relativism.” IfsFeelsWellsKindMayIdeasRealFactsSeemsAbleValuesLostStarsColdStonesUniversalConstantReviewsShoreVoidAestheticGreyAmazonSeductiveRelativismProustLost TimeAdriftStone ColdSnooki Author:Lev Grossman
“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
“The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a superior utility in the aesthetic respect; but it is not unusual to find a well-bred book-lover insisting that the clumsier product is also more serviceable as a vehicle of printed speech.” WellsBookProcessProductsLoversSpeechExcellenceSuperiorsUnusualAestheticVehicleUtilityPrintedObsoleteAntiquesInsistingBook Lover Book:A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism Source: A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism
“Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.” WellsArtMotivationalEmotionEnvironmentProduceArchitectureWell BeingAtmosphereAestheticModern ArchitectureArchitecture And Art Author:Luis Barragan