Aesthetic Quotes - Page 19

• Cycling is based so much on form, on aesthetics, on class - the way you carry yourself on the bike, the sort of technique you have.

  David Millar

  Class, Cycling, Way

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• I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions. The Jungian view would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.

  Jeremy Northam

  Memories, Drama, Views

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism! You must achieve mastery over your idealism, over your virtue as well as over your vice, aesthetic mastery over everything that drives you to write in the first place - your outrage, your politics, your grief, your love!

  Philip Roth

  Art, Grief, Writing

  Philip Roth (1998). “I Married a Communist”, p.230, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.

  Mike Mills

  Hate, Sadness, Thinking

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• Aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake.

  Noah Kerner

  Design, Good Design

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• If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.

  Ouida

  Acceptance, Men, Cycling

  Ouida (1901). “Critical Studies”

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• The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, of water. We feel poetry as we feel the closeness of a woman, or as we feel a mountain or a bay. If we feel it immediately, why dilute it with other words, which no doubt will be weaker than our feelings?

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Water, Feelings, Doubt

  "Siete noches/Seven Nights". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1980.

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• Footballers today are forced to conform to a bodily aesthetic that in its rigidity and uniformity makes fashion models look as varied as snowflakes. This wasn't always so. Up until the 1980s most teams in all divisions had a couple of fat ones, a couple of little ones, at least one bandy one, one completely covered in hair, two weaklings and a chap with no neck. This was an era when you didn't need names on the backs of shirts in order to tell who's who, you could clearly identify them with your eyes half shut from the other side of the pitch.

  Danny Baker

  Soccer, Football, Fashion

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• My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified here, and I am not enough in sympathy with our gross public to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One's friends are delightful; but we are none of us Americans, we don't think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most displaced and useless class on earth!

  Edith Wharton

  Thinking, Class, America

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• The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.

  Donald Knuth

  Machines, Algorithms, Way

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• The film is a direct mirror of the director. If your director doesn't know how to dress, there will be an aesthetic of the film that won't come through - whether it's in the costumes if he doesn't know exactly what he wants or the look of the film.

  Channing Tatum

  Mirrors, Directors, Dresses

  "Channing Tatum Interview THE EAGLE". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. February 9, 2011.

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• Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Character, Should Have, Stories

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• I would describe my aesthetic as definitely personal and harmonious with an eclectic yet bohemian sensibility.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Eclectic Style, Bohemian, Harmonious

  "Ten Questions: Lisa Marie Fernandez". Interview with Yale Breslin, www.elle.com. August 14, 2012.

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• Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.

  George Santayana

  Real, Intuition, Criticism

  George Santayana (2009). “The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress”, p.1058, The Floating Press

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• Rules of taste enforce structures of power.

  Susan Sontag

  Taste, Structure

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• There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and shadows of people and ideas can be arranged and rearranged like stained-glass pieces in a window, or chessmen on a board.

  A. S. Byatt

  Book, Glasses, Ideas

  A S Byatt (2009). “The Children's Book”, p.119, Random House

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• No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Writing, World

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• God's pleasure--the beauty creation possesses in his regard--underlies the distinct being of creation, and so beauty is the first and truest word concerning all that appears within being; beauty is the showing of what is; God looked upon what he had wrought and saw that it was good.

  David Bentley Hart

  Saws, Firsts, Creation

  David Bentley Hart (2004). “The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth”, p.18, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem ("It's simple; it's broke.") to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution.

  Verlyn Klinkenborg

  Real, Moving, Science

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• There is a great deal of emotional satisfaction in the elegant demonstration, in the elegant ordering of facts into theories, and in the still more satisfactory, still more emotionally exciting discovery that the theory is not quite right and has to be worked over again, very much as any other work of art-a painting, a sculpture has to be worked over in the interests of aesthetic perfection. So there is no scientist who is not to some extent worthy of being described as artist or poet.

  Robert Watson-Watt

  Art, Science, Emotional

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• It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.

  Charlaine Harris

  Dumb, Lust, Mind

  Charlaine Harris (2001). “Dead Until Dark: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.64, Penguin

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• Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

  Alan Cumming

  Stupid, Directors, Actors

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. December 7, 2010.

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• The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that seductive land where we all find certainty and consolation. Nothing quite spans this gulf with such immediacy as the art of popular song.

  Barry Humphries

  Song, Art, Past

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• It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Country, Average, Ordinary

  "Reginald". Book by Hector Hugh Munro, 1904.

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• Even so, the major feeling and thought that I'd like them to keep in mind is the aesthetic ability of such a film to express the need for everyone to take part in the protection and preservation of humankind and the Earth.

  Martine Epoque

  Feelings, Mind, Needs

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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