#aesthetic

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm taking myself too seriously, but every artist should consider himself Picasso. Otherwise, you're doing yourself an injustice. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

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Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. ↗

— Richard Rogers

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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

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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

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

— Andres Serrano

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

— Tom Robbins

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Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being. ↗

— Luis Barragan

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A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

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