#aesthetic

Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion is also peace: that the desire awakened by the shape of Christ and his church is one truly reborn as agape, rather than merely the way in which a lesser force succumbs to a greater, as an episode in the endless epic of power. (3) ↗

— David Bentley Hart

#christianity #eastern-orthodox #beauty

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

#behind #build #childhood #do-it-yourself #done

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

— Friedrich Schiller

#both #development #fundamental #harmonious #individual

If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or misused but it'll also probably provide a way of people acknowledging what the aesthetic is about because people have to confront it every day. ↗

— Richard Serra

#acknowledging #aesthetic #also #because #confront

I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones. ↗

— Andres Serrano

#church #going #i #like #ones

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

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

#aesthetic #allows #doctrine #doubt #doubts

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

There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake. ↗

— Bill Conti

#aesthetic #composers #higher #i #illusions

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