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.

Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.

It's a wonderful side effect of what we're doing to give someone the strength to come out of the closet to their family or simply present themselves aesthetically in a way they feel happy with whether or not their friends are going to be allowed to like them anymore.

At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.

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

Art and Religion are then two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

As writers and readers as sinners and citizens our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

This aesthetic quality then is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers good politics from bad and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys.

It's something we guys have all done. Made tapes for girls trying to impress them to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it because you're too awkward to do it.

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

I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.

It would be great to do another television show that was a multi-camera because the hours are so wonderful and you can be a good mom at the same time. The problem is there aren't a lot of multi-camera shows that I personally like. My aesthetic is more geared toward single-camera shows.

I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.

I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership which include attention to aesthetics and the environment nurturing affection intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.

This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief thing with person fact with aesthetics knowledge with application of knowledge.

A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural educational aesthetic inspirational and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

The aesthetic came along the way I think - just through experimenting and going on tour and trying stuff out on stage having fun with it and not taking it too seriously. If I had a ballgown at home I'd wear it onstage. If I found something in a charity shop I'd wear it. That's where it grew from - just wanting to play dress-up.

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees Just give me a home in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But there is no alternative to the state.

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions and the plant is to a landscape artist not only a plant - rare unusual ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color a shape a volume or an arabesque in itself.

Fashion for me is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art food film. It's something that I appreciate and really like.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.

My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.

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.

In Seattle I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond Virginia might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.