Aesthetics Quotes

"Exuberance is better than taste" "I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty" "Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest" "There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth" "Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them" "Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said." "Of all lies art is the least untrue" "There are neither good nor bad subjects From the point of view of pure Art you could almost establish it as an axiom that there is no such thing as a subject inferior in itself or without possibilities" "Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it" "What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness." "I would love to make beauty and strangeness synonymous" "To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about" "Beauty is looks that you never forget. A face should jolt, not soothe" "We want as many different things in as many different fields to be beautiful as possible" "The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul" "Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth" "Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks." "Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere." "Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm" "There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty"