Aesthetic Quotes - Page 30

• If I was asked to get rid of the Zen aesthetic and just keep one quality necessary to create art, I would say it's trust. When you learn to trust yourself implicitly, you no longer need to prove something through your art. You simply allow it to come out, to be as it is. This is when creating art becomes effortless. It happens just as you grow your hair. It grows.

  John Daido Loori

  Art, Creating, Hair

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• It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.

  Aldous Huxley

  Years, Space, Tourists

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Art, Doors, Use

  Sri Aurobindo (1999). “The Human Cycle, Psychology of Social Development”, p.175, Lotus Press

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• One of the many ways of contesting level-zero, and one of the best, is to take photographs, an activity in which one should start becoming adept very early in life, teach it to children since it requires discipline, aesthetic education, a good eye and steady fingers.

  Julio Cortazar

  Zero, Children, Eye

  Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.705, Everyman's Library

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• In a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, all that is left is to imitate dead styles... Contemporary or postmodernist art... will involve the necessary failure of art and the aesthetic, the failure of the new, the imprisonment in the past.

  Fredric Jameson

  Art, Past, Innovation

  Fredric Jameson (1998). “The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998”, p.7, Verso

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• I don't think that just because a lot of my music has a quieter aesthetic; [it] excludes me from achieving that in a live setting, from being dangerous or something.

  J Tillman

  Thinking, Achieve, Dangerous

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I say Afro-American aesthetic, I'm not just talking about the United States, I'm talking about the Americas. People in the Latin countries read my books because they share the same international aesthetic that I'm into and have been into for a long time. And it's multicultural.

  Ishmael Reed

  Country, Latin, Book

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• Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.

  John Szarkowski

  Photography, Purpose, Facts

  "The lure of the street" by Geoff Dyer, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2008.

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• By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the possibility of differentiating between the original and the copy. [Photography calls] into question the whole concept of the uniqueness of the art object, the originality of the author, the coherence of the oeuvre within which it was made, and the individuality of so-called self-expression.

  Rosalind E. Krauss

  Photography, Art, Self

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• In the end, I believe that the most important influence on my aesthetic has been the photographs I have taken.

  Roger Ballen

  Taken, Believe, Important

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• You come to the photograph as an aesthetic object with no context... Then you step in and read the text and then out again to revisit the image in a completely different way. I'm interested in that space between text and image. The piece becomes the negative space between the two.

  Taryn Simon

  Two, Space, Way

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• In these times aesthetic taste is dismissed as irrelevant. Well, I am perverse, for that reason I am more drawn to it than ever. I have been described as having style, of being a mannered photographer... it's some people's quarrel with my work and others' fascination.

  Deborah Turbeville

  People, Style, Fascination

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• The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of the past, like flies in amber.

  Peter Wollen

  Photography, Past, Stopping

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• Were we to aim in every case at the kind of supreme beauty exemplified by Sta Maria della Salute, we should end with aesthetic overload. The clamorous masterpieces, jostling for attention side by side, would lose their distinctiveness, and the beauty of each of them would be at war with the beauty of the rest.

  Roger Scruton

  War, Would Be, Attention

  Roger Scruton (2011). “Beauty: A Very Short Introduction”, p.11, Oxford University Press

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• Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. The myths and laws of religion are not true because they they conform to some metaphysical, scientific or historical reality but because they are life enhancing. They tell you how human nature functions, but you will not discover their truth unless you apply these myths and doctrines to your own life and put them into practice.

  Karen Armstrong

  Life, Change, Truth

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