Aesthetic Quotes

“We are an aesthetic species.”

“The sense of beauty is the highest sense we have.”

“I am interested in things that are formally ambiguous.”

“For me, the most fun part of programming is the pleasing aesthetic of well-written code.”

“I reckon that women looked their best at the turn of the century.”

“I’ve always been drawn to the darker, more surreal side of life.”

“Beauty is our business.”

“The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.”

“I tried to make my life a work of art.”

“Ever since I was a child I've been fascinated by the surreal, the menacing, the dark, the beautiful, and the comic.”

“Beauty is the last thing which the thinking intellect dares to approach.”

“The ideas were always there from the beginning; the combination of glamour and horror.”

“Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier.”

“So much of the world is canopied in color, cushioned in patterns, cluttered with shapes.”

“Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.”

“I don't make beautiful buildings. I make buildings that are interesting.”

“The highest art is always a form of religion.”

“Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.”

“Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it.”

“Beauty is the harmony of all parts in whatsoever subject it appears, fitted together with such proportion and connection, that nothing could be added, diminished or altered, but for the worse.”