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#aesthetics

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #aesthetics




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


Kazuo Ishiguro


#art #artist #beauty #art

In the past an artist produced things that were necessary socially; they were instruments, albeit of a special kind, that helped the dead reach eternity, spells to be cast, prayers to be liturgically fleshed. . . . The aesthetic component of those instruments enhanced their function but was never central, never an independent, nonutilitarian thing.


Stanisław Lem


#art #art

I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life.


Clive Bell


#art #emotions #life #art

Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises out of memory, and so (as Nietzsche saw) out of pain, the pain of surrendering easier pleasures in favour of much more difficult ones ... successful literary works are achieved anxieties, not releases from anxieties.


Harold Bloom


#anxiety #canon #literature #age

Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.


Leonard Bernstein


#art #creativity #epiphanic-moment #epiphany #inspirational

God's pleasure--the beauty creation possesses in his regard--underlies the distinct being of creation, and so beauty is the first and truest word concerning all that appears within being; beauty is the showing of what is; God looked upon what he had wrought and saw that it was good.


David Bentley Hart


#christianity #eastern-orthodox #philosophy #theology #beauty

Never worry about the reader, what the reader can understand. When you are writing, glance over your shoulder, and you’ll find there is no reader. Just you and the page. Feel lonely? Good! Assuming you can write clear English (or Norwegian) sentences, give up all worry about communication. If you want to communicate, use the telephone. To write a poem you have to have a streak of arrogance (…) when you are writing you must assume that the next thing you put down belongs not for reasons of logic, good sense, or narrative development, but because you put it there. You, the same person who said that, also said this. The adhesive force is your way of writing, not sensible connection.


Richard Hugo


#poetry #communication

Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest efficacy the sublime beauty and inevitable reality of the Fascist ideal.


Louis de Bernières


#art #beauty #fascism #art

Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular.


Donald Richie


#art #japan #travel #art

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.


Oscar Wilde


#appreciation #hidden-things #wild






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