Aesthetics Quotes and Sayings

“Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. IT is a creative art.” – Ansel Adams

“Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people.” – Shepard Fairey

“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.” – Alfred Whitehead

“Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.” – Victor Hugo

“Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.” – Paul Rand

“Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.” – Miuccia Prada

“Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.” – Barnett Newman

“Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.” –
Ben Shneiderman

“When I paint I do a different thing than when I design. But both involve aesthetics, both involve thought, both involve planning.” – Paula Scher

“Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. … Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.” – Remy de Gourmont

“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.” – David Hume