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!
#121
“To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle
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#122
“Art becomes so specialized as to be comprehensible only to artists, and they complain bitterly of public indifference to their work. Competition arises. The wild battle for success becomes more and more material. Small groups who have fought their way to the top of the chaotic world of art and picture-making entrench themselves in the territory they have won. The public, left far behind, looks on bewildered, loses interest and turns away.” ― Wassily Kandinsky
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#123
“In here, Phryne, is the nursery. Do you like babies? Phryne laughed. No, not at all. they are not aesthetic like a puppy or a kitten. In fact, they always look drunk to me. look at that one you'd swear he had been hitting the gin.” ― Kerry Greenwood
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#124
“Aestheticism is the garbage of intuitive feeling.” ― Kazimir Severinovich Malevich
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#125
“We do not dislike everything that shines, but we do prefer a pensive lustre to a shallow brilliance, a murky light that, whether in a stone or an artifact, bespeaks a sheen of antiquity... we do love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colours and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them.” ― Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
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#126
“Some models are actually very weird-looking.” ― A.D. Aliwat
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#127
“We should worry again about the connection between play-starved education and eroded mechanisms for political debate, if worry can lead beyond deadlocks. Too often, academic essays pursue analysis and critique but stop short of speculation about remedies, as if intellectual work excluded an element of creativity. In fact, essays that remain risk-averse miss the potential of the genre to "assay," or try out, ideas.” ― Doris Sommer
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#128
“In a Fisherian world, animals are slaves to evolutionary fashion, evolving extravagant and arbitrary displays and tastes that are all ‘meaningless’; they do not involve anything other than perceived qualities.” ― Richard O. Prum
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#129
“I'd discovered that the range of beauty in breasts is wide; while one should never lightly say that a pair is ugly, one can easily say that a pair of breasts is beautiful. Hedgehogs are beautiful sometimes; so are baby pigs.” ― Mo Yan
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#130
“You're a beautiful boy, Clay, but that's about it.” ― Bret Easton Ellis
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#131
"The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years." – Audrey Hepburn
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#132
“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
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