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!
#81
“I love the waves of your lips the symmetries of your eyes the gazes the smiles.” ― Jazalyn
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#82
“There is an expression in Japanese that says that someone who makes things of poor quality is in fact worse than a thief because he doesn't make things that will last or provide true satisfaction. A thief at least redistributes the wealth of a society.” ― Andrew Juniper
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#83
“I think my show was more beautiful. Like, it would have made for prettier pictures on Insta. But now, we're gonna have way better memes.” ― Carlos Hernandez
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#84
“In simple words, ‘Beauty’ is what gladdens the heart. Neither a symmetrical face nor a shapely body – If the sight of you generates happiness, you’re beautiful.” ― Adeel Ahmed Khan
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#85
“A six-week trip to China in 1973 convinced me—if I needed convincing—that the autonomy of the aesthetic is something to be protected, and cherished, as indispensable nourishment to intelligence. But a decade-long residence in the 1960s, with its inexorable conversion of moral and political radicalisms into “style,” has convinced me of the perils of over- generalizing the aesthetic view of the world.” ― Susan Sontag
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#86
“The flower is strong in its beauty as it can be forgotten, set aside, or destroyed. The ambitious do not know beauty. The feeling of essence is beauty.” ― Jiddu Krishnamurti
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#87
“The great has terror for its basis... The beautiful is founded on mere positive pleasure...” ― Edmund Burke
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#88
“The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.” ― John Dewey
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#89
“The ideal of “working exactly” is also inherent in the historical disciplines. Art historians pursue it, above all, in order to avoid the baleful contact with aesthetics; and often exert themselves merely to say what happened after what– and nothing more than that.” ― Heinrich Wölfflin
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#90
“We pay a small fortune for a variegated monstera whose epidermis is unevenly colored. However, we pay a small fortune for skin creams that promise to make our epidermis evenly colored.” ― Khang Kijarro Nguyen
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#91
“Pleading with those eyes, it’s obvious what I’m meant to do. I embrace the beauty and kiss it deeply.” ― Patrick Bryant
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#92
“What finite beings say about transcendence is the semblance of transcendence; but as Kant well knew, it is a necessary semblance. Hence the incomparable metaphysical relevance of the rescue of semblance, the object of esthetics.” ― Theodor W. Adorno
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#93
“We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.” ― Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
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#94
“Fiction is as useful as truth, for giving us matter, upon which to exercise the judgment of value.” ― G.E. Moore
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#95
“How convenient it is to declare that everything is totally ugly within the habit of the époque, rather than applying oneself to extract from it the dark and cryptic beauty, however faint and invisible it is.” ― Charles Baudelaire
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#96
“It is with this movement, with the passage and dissolution of impressions, images, sensations, that analysis leaves off—that continual vanishing away, that strange, perpetual weaving and unweaving of ourselves.” ― Walter Pater
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#97
“In a single wave of meaning the triumphant purity of being.” ― Boris Pasternak
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#98
“People are nice to me because of how I like, and part of me likes that, but part of me feels guilty because I haven't done anything to deserve it.” ― Ted Chiang
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#99
“There was a product which seemed attractive, expensive, portable, beautiful and simple. Everybody talked about its beauty but they bought it for it’s simplicity.” ― Amit Kalantri
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#100
“Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism.” ― James Elkins
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