#esthetic

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

I think it's more accurate to think of aesthetics as a key ingredient in a recipe, as opposed to the icing on the cake. ↗

— Stephen P. Anderson

#interaction-design #ixd #user-experience #ux #design

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

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic. ↗

— Clive Bell

#aesthetic #conceive #critic #degree #emotion

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy. ↗

— Clive Bell

#art #ecstasy #emotion #forms #inexhaustible

I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if you don't give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself. ↗

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

#attractive #bright #feminist #give #grunge

I don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#defining #gender #i #me #think

That said, we don't approach these improvements as only a surface aesthetic. The producers and we think that these men are helped with their inner needs when they pay attention to their externals. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#approach #attention #externals #helped #improvements

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#advances #aesthetic #coming #innovation #nearly

I will always come with something that's aesthetically pleasing. ↗

— Justin Timberlake

#always #come #i #pleasing #something