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Tag Name "Aesthetic" (365)

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I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas a moral and aesthetic nightmare whether or not the days are prosperous?
Christopher Hitchens
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Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the day, they never became pop stars. I counter stated that very strongly, and I continue to do that.
Wynton Marsalis
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You just have to have the right gear and a few people to put you in motion with a good aesthetic and the film will take care of itself.
Andrew Wight
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Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so seductive but aesthetic experience itself degenerates into a kind of fetish or idol if it is held up as an end in itself, untested by the rest of life.
Roger Kimball
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We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature and have inflamed your organs of fancy.
Sarah Waters
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I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
Edmund White
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Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values.
Samuel
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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection.
Richard Courant
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My intention, certainly, is to create something which is aesthetic but many things are implicit in the work that I do. For me photography is writing, it is history it can be aesthetic, it can be many things though it does not have to be art.
Graciela Iturbide
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I’m interested in things which suggest the world rather than express the personality... The most conventional thing, the most ordinary - it seems to me that those things can be dealt with without having to judge them they seem to me to exist as clear facts, not involving aesthetic hierarchy.
Jasper Johns
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The aesthetic dimension of the ideal state comes out in the idea of harmony, which is the classical idea of beauty as concinnitas or unity-in-variety.
Frederick C. Beiser
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The extent of my personal BMX adventures were all [on] dirt tracks. But just the aesthetic of it that early-to-mid-'80s BMX is something that's just part of me.
Matt Skiba
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The relation of photography and language is a principal site of struggle for value and power in contemporary representations of reality it is the place where images and words find and lose their conscience, their aesthetic and ethical identity.
William J. Mitchell
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Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical
Hermann Broch
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It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that held and moved and stirred the beholder as sheer decoration could not.
Clement Greenberg
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Based on a true story is a come-on, the aesthetic equivalent of no loan request refused. For, at best, the creator has fashioned a film based on his understanding of, interpretation of, and reduction of the report of an actual occurrence.
David Mamet
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Of course it would depend on the project, but I don't think I could ever separate myself from my aesthetic.
Zack Snyder
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Nature supplies the game of chess with its implements science with its system art with its aesthetic arrangement of its problems and God endows it with its blessed power of making people happy.
Peter Weiss
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Mathematics and art are quite different. We could not publish so many papers that used, repeatedly, the same idea and still command the respect of our colleagues.
Antoni Zygmund
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Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something that we should not have missed, or they are about to tell us something this imminence of a revelation that is not produced is, perhaps, the esthetic event.
Jorge Luis Borges
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We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.
David Mamet
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I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?
Ana Castillo
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To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. Design is how you treat your customers. If you treat them well from an environmental, emotional, and aesthetic standpoint, you're probably doing good design.
Yves Behar
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I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.
Clive Bell
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