I have this feeling that you might be one artsy, ethereal soul if you've landed on this page. Perhaps romantic as well. Or, I might be wrong. Let me know. However, it's definitely not in everyone's interest to search for aesthetic quotes or simply beautiful quotes as one's preferred leisure activity. Let's be honest. The majority perhaps doesn't even understand the concept of aesthetics. Though I must admit, it's a rather tricky concept to grasp. It's philosophy, after all.
When one thing about something is aesthetic, the mind instantly goes to something beautiful and of one's taste. One might think that an Instagram feed can be aesthetic. Or the sunset, a Victorian-style cafe, a candle, an art piece, or Halloween decor. But it's not only an appreciation of the visual appeal. The term is also used in other fields, such as literature, gastronomy, and music. Ultimately, it can refer to anything that can arouse our greatest admiration.
The internet is full of inspiring quotations about beauty, deep aesthetic quotes, or short aesthetic quotes, whichever you prefer and feel that day. And all of these aesthetic quotes can allusively point to one important message: beauty is very much an individual thing. For many, beauty intervenes with the feelings it evokes and the emotions it provokes.
Numerous inspiring, positive aesthetic quotes are written, some perhaps voiced, about art, nature, music, objects, people, spirituality, and life itself. Below, we've gathered a lengthy list of beautiful quotes for you that we hope will provide you with the inspiration you were looking for. And hopefully, match your aesthetics! Also, what is your favorite aesthetic quote? Let us know!
#41
“The machine aesthetic bought something familiar to modern experience, but remote from architecture, to bear on modern architecture.” ― Robin Evans
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#42
“The philosophical attitudes of awe and wonder of the Ancient Greeks and the Enlightenment Philosophy of Kant have been inverted into the "modern" moods of terror and boredom.” ― Michael R.D. James
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#43
“If I was asked to get rid of the Zen aesthetic and just keep one quality necessary to create art, I would say it’s trust. When you learn to trust yourself implicitly, you no longer need to prove something through your art. You simply allow it to come out, to be as it is. This is when creating art becomes effortless. It happens just as you grow your hair. It grows.” ― John Daido Loori
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#44
“The aesthetics aren’t merely a side note, they’re as important as anything else.” ― Sylvain Neuvel
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#45
“Refinement creates beauty everywhere: it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but grossness in the object.” ― William Hazlitt
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#46
“The starry sky began to shine, when assigned night spread with its ‘moon lamp’ for all of the wistful thoughts, lay below the tormented Earth’s nocturnal light and those splendid visions caught my pounding spirits.” ― Nithin Purple
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#47
“The historical division between the beautiful and the sublime indicates that an aesthetic experience is not necessarily linked to beauty, but can also be induced by the unpleasant, unbalanced, distorted, or even hideous.” ― Kristine H. Harper
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#48
“In the psychology of aesthetics, there is a name for the moment between the anxiety of confronting something new and the satisfying click of understanding it. It is called an ’aesthetic aha.” ― Derek Thompson
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#49
“Aesthetic sense is the twin of one's instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics.” ― Joseph Brodsky
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#50
“It’s better to have a hunger and appreciation for beauty than to be merely beautiful. In the end, life is richer that way. She may learn that.” ― Susan Vreeland
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#51
“Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience.” ― Stewart Stafford
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#52
“The philosophical study of beauty, art, and the splendor of nature nurtures a person’s fertile mind by exposing a person to the puzzling world of the beautiful, elegant, ugly, and grotesque. Human beings ability to experience sublime pleasure emanates from a variety of sensory experiences and a person’s ability to make discriminatory observations and judgment in taste and sentiment.” ― Kilroy J. Oldster
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#53
“According to this view, all that matters to art appreciation is beauty of form. The logical extreme of aestheticism turns out to be homicidal art.” ― John McAteer
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#54
“When you watch Olympic athletes in competition, does your self-esteem plummet? Of course not. On the contrary, you feel wonder and admiration; you're inspired that such exceptional individuals exist. So why can't we feels the same way about beauty?” ― Ted Chiang
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#55
“There is a sort of aesthetic poverty about conservatism.” ― Alan Hollinghurst
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#56
“There's something wrong with any art that makes a woman all bust” ― Djuna Barnes
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#57
“People who insist upon dressing casually also want to think casually. And in a fallen world, thinking casually means being wrong more often than not.” ― Douglas Wilson
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#58
“It seems to me that a pleasurable Contemplation of Beauty has certainly an immeasurably greater value than mere Consciousness of Pleasure.” ― G.E. Moore
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#59
“No man sings as beautifully as when his song is accompanied by a woman’s voice.” ― Roman Payne
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#60
“Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.” ― Jack McDevitt
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