I am a person who holds the aesthetic high. I have suits made in Savile Row.
How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?
Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.
Commercial roadways in communities that lack zoning laws, for example, are often an aesthetic nightmare not because of insufficient competition, and not because merchants are stupid or lack taste. Rather, the problem is that any individual merchant's sign won't be noticed unless it's bigger and more garish than those of rival merchants.
Aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake.
The aesthetic, as I understand it, is really about the way in which we understand beauty and speak and think about beauty.
I have tried to draw the human effigy (and all the other subjects dealt with in my paintings) in an immediate and effective way without any reference to the aesthetic.
Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.
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.
What cinema can do is the reordering of this reality from a certain chaos or from a certain order into an aesthetic dimension.
There's something about fear and aesthetic that go hand in hand.
I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.
I'm not going to say I'll never rock with a band, because I'm too much of a fan of the aesthetic of a great band. But a girl group? Not again.
If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere.
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
My fascination for studies proved highly beneficial, it assisted the development of my aesthetic understanding of chess, and improved my endgame play.
Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.
People hide behind the word aesthetic. They say, 'Well, it's just that designer's aesthetic. ' But when you see 18 seasons in a row and not one single model outside a certain skin color. . . ? There are people in the industry who are advocates, who support diversity. And there are people who do not. I don't get it. Beauty is universal. These doors have to open.
I think that there is an air of experience and aesthetic sophistication that weaves in with the amateur aspects of the film [Dream of Life]; it gives the film a certain elegance.
Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.