#aesthetics

In my box of sound bites there are no jackhammers, no snowmobiles, no Jet Skis, no children wailing. Music but no Muzak. It's my box. Put what you want in yours. ↗

— Joan Oliver Goldsmith

#art #art

It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#beauty #lust #male-beauty #beauty

All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#art #poltics #propaganda #war #art

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

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#art #artist #beauty #art

Ground beef can hardly be classified as meat. A pureed animal is an aesthetic ideal. ↗

— Bauvard

#art #beef #funny #humor #meat

Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent. ↗

— Roger Scruton

#beauty #classic #style #beauty

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

Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his conscious reflection, his progressive steps, mysterious even to himself, should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#art #creation #creativity #perception #self-knowledge

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true. ↗

— Adam Phillips

#art #philosophy #secrets #truth #art

Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it. ↗

— Theodor W. Adorno

#philosophy #art