Quotes with aesthetic

  • That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.

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  • David Mamet A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
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  • Adam Savage That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
    Adam Savage
    American special effects designer and fabricator (1967 - )
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  • Evelyn Waugh Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Richard Dawkins Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Brit Morin At Brit + Co, our mission is to unlock creativity, so we look for future employees that actively flex their creative muscles. The design of your resume is the first way to let me know more about your aesthetic.
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Bono Bowie was much more responsible for the aesthetic of punk rock than he's been given credit for, like, in fact, most interesting things in the Seventies and Eighties.
    Source: Rolling Stone interview (2005)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Anthea Turner Consider your house from an aesthetic point of view.
    Anthea Turner
    English television presenter (1960 - )
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  • Alfred H. Barr Except the American woman, nothing interests the eye of American man more than the automobile, or seems so important to him as an object of aesthetic appreciation.
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Henry James He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • J. G. Ballard I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Burton Rascoe I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.
    Source: Contemporary Reminiscences in Arts & Decoration, Vol. 26 (1927)
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  • Ouida If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Arne Jacobsen In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Gaston Bachelard Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Arthur Erickson Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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