#aesthetic

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#cognitive #even #holds #intellectual #key

I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#convinced #decoration #design #having #how

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#although #being #beyond #civilized #got

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal. ↗

— Kazimir Malevich

#been #goal #never #object #original

So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#dad #formed #much

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#both #development #fundamental #harmonious #individual

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#ages #any #artist #fail #history

The film is a direct mirror of the director. If your director doesn't know how to dress, there will be an aesthetic of the film that won't come through - whether it's in the costumes if he doesn't know exactly what he wants or the look of the film. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#come #costumes #direct #director #dress

In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#life

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art. ↗

— Theodor W. Adorno

#philosophy #art