Aesthetics Quotes - Page 3

• The States has more publishers and a wider range of aesthetics but so much more competition - the amount of writers vying for the same spot as you is staggering. I think they're different challenges, but equally frustrating when you're trying to get your foot in the door.

  Eden Robinson

  Thinking, Feet, Doors

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Civilization, Risk, Progress

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from Aug 11, 2014

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• Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy of the environment's objectivity or the individual's psychic history. Guided by the latter, art is redeemed, makes the world into its instrument, and forges, beyond spatial and temporal prisons, a personal vision.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Mirrors, Objectivity

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• A movie tends to box you in, at least as far as the aesthetics. You have an incredibly kinetic experience, which is the joy of cinema.

  Yann Martel

  Joy, Cinema, Boxes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.

  John Cusack

  Taken, Principles, Kitsch

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• So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?

  Mark Poster

  Relation, Late, Urgent

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• I'm not giving up on my work. I'm still trying to challenge people's aesthetics and myself.

  Guido Palau

  Giving Up, People, Challenges

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.

  Sloane Crosley

  Heart, Vintage, People

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• I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.

  Jeremy Renner

  Character, Men, Thinking

  "The Bourne Legacy's Jeremy Renner, action hero at last". Interview with Andrea Hubert, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2012.

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• Television is coitus interruptus brought into aesthetics.

  Norman Mailer

  Television

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• I'm not creating art that starts with politics or starts with ethics. I feel I am a conceptual artist because my art is more concerned with epistemology than ethics or politics or even aesthetics.

  Vik Muniz

  Art, Creating, Ethics

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I can be critical of Beyoncé and yet also appreciate aspects of her power and representation. I can especially critique the way white supremacist aesthetics more often than not informs her presentation of self and yet still acknowledge her beauty.

  Bell Hooks

  Self, White, Appreciate

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• Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.

  Miguel

  Should, Fashionable, Practicals

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• Science is a limited way of knowing, looking at just the natural world and natural causes. There are a lot of ways human beings understand the universe - through literature, theology, aesthetics, art or music.

  Eugenie Scott

  Art, Knowing, Atheism

  "PROFILE / EUGENIE SCOTT / Berkeley scientist leads fight to stop teaching of creationism" by Monica Lam, www.sfgate.com. February 7, 2003.

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• The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In the end, these unavoidable conflicts provide architecture's essential and productive tensions; the tragedy is that so little of it rises above the level imposed by compromise, and that this is the only work most of us see and know.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Art, Responsibility, Vision

  Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Aesthetics does not exist for the camera as an isolated entity. Aesthetics, in fact, is inseparable from the purpose of the photographer and the use he makes of his theme. When photography fails... it is usually because a false separation has been imposed on form and content.

  Sid Grossman

  Photography, Cameras, Doe

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• I don't think it is even possible to define what a good photograph is, so it is difficult to instruct anybody how to make one. Beauty and aesthetics are subjective, and very much in the mind of the beholder.

  Michael Kenna

  Thinking, Mind, Photograph

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• If you come at movies with your own sense of morality and not your own sense of aesthetics, I think you're screwed. I think that's not a way to look at movies.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Thinking, Looks, Way

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2009.

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• I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.

  Deepak Chopra

  Leadership, Thinking, People

  "Deepak Chopra On Enlightened Leadership". Interview with Jenna Goudreau, www.forbes.com. January 12, 2011.

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• In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style. The style of Parisian architecture has been proved and refined by at least three centuries of academic dictates and highly developed taste. There are few violations of this taste, and there is exemplary architectural consistency. Paris has defined the aesthetics of a sophisticated urban culture.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Paris, Consistency, Style

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

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• True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Giving, Judging

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• For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conversationalist, pro-computerologist or Neo-Luddite, simpleton or sage, to interfere with aesthetics. The real world is the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws. But the tip of the nose of my book or stories or poems is where their rights end and my territorial imperatives begin, run and rule.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Real, Book

  Ray Bradbury (1990). “Fahrenheit 451: Curriculum Unit”

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• There would be no history as we know it, no religion, no metaphysics or aesthetics as we have lived them, without an initial act of trust, of confiding, more fundamental, more axiomatic by far than any “social contract” or covenant with the postulate of the divine. This instauration of trust, this entrance of man into the city of man, is that between word and world.

  George Steiner

  Men, Cities, Would Be

  George Steiner (1991). “Real Presences”, p.89, University of Chicago Press

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• It is a mistake to suppose, with some philosophers of aesthetics, that art and poetry aim to deal with the general and the abstract. This misconception has been foisted upon us by mediaeval logic. Art and poetry deal with the concrete of nature, not with separate 'particulars,' for such rows do not exist.

  Ernest Fenollosa

  Art, Mistake, Poetry

  Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound, Jonathan Stalling, Lucas Klein (2008). “The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition”, p.54, Fordham University Press

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• 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.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Brother, Environmental, Looks

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