#aesthetic

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

— J. G. Ballard

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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#change #cultural #driven #exclusive #great

I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

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

— Gaston Bachelard

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I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

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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. ↗

— Clive Bell

#alliance #art #between #circumstance #ecstasy

Consider your house from an aesthetic point of view. ↗

— Anthea Turner

#consider #house #point #point of view #view

All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#art #culture #art

An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#art #artist #beauty #art

I don't make records that way, where I'm trying to please the marketplace or anything. Not because I have anything against that, it's just never been a part of my aesthetic, even when I was with the Pixies. ↗

— Frank Black

#against #anything #because #been #even