Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Alfred North Whitehead
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My mind is changing all the time. I can't live in a space that has a fixed aesthetic. I just need a blank slate when I come home.
Petra Collins
HomeLiveTimeSpaceMindAesthetic
Aesthetic experiences are powerful, to be sure, and probably inescapable, but Nature will not remain effective for very long.
Timothy Morton
NatureAestheticLongPowerfulWill
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
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I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise.
Leo Kottke
YourselfWritingThinkAestheticYou
I've always been attracted to the darker things in life. I was never one to go for light, airy stuff, even as a child. My whole aesthetic has always been one of the darker side. That rings true also in my tastes in music. It's just always something I've gravitated to naturally.
Kirk Hammett
LifeMusicLightChildAestheticGo
For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm taking myself too seriously, but every artist should consider himself Picasso. Otherwise, you're doing yourself an injustice.
Giovanni Ribisi
MyselfYourselfMeAestheticDoing
The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
Franz Grillparzer
WomenMenAestheticWhyAdmire
I don't call myself an 'industrial designer,' because I'm other things. Industrial designers want to make novel things. Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.
Eva Zeisel
MyselfAestheticWantIndustrial
I enjoy a good meal as much as anyone, but I get so confused by nutritional, budgetary, ecological, ethical, aesthetic, and time-management concerns that I often subsist for weeks on instant oatmeal and multivitamins.
Elif Batuman
GoodAestheticConfusedEnjoyMeal
Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.
Alan Cumming
StupidAestheticHelpYouDirector
I'm not about either entertaining or instructing. The entertaining and instructing are secondary fallout from the fundamental thing, which is basically to create an aesthetic object.
Samuel R. Delany
AestheticCreateEntertainingObject
I guess when I look over my shoulder at other designers, I feel like people are so definitive. It's so clear to me what their aesthetic is, what they're projecting. And I look at my own work and I think, Who could ever decipher what the hell is going on?
Marc Jacobs
WorkPeopleMeThinkHellAesthetic
Doing any kind of culture in America in which you are not trying to affirm a European aesthetic is war.
George C. Wolfe
CultureWarAestheticAmericaDoing
I like to style myself, as my first job out of university was working at 'Vogue' magazine in NYC, and I grew up attending the collections with my mother, so I have a particular aesthetic, which is classic glamour with a twist.
Carly Steel
MotherStyleMyselfJobAesthetic
It's for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can't afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it - a little bit of me or a lot of me, that's what's important.
Vera Wang
WomenDressMeAestheticImportant
I'm sick of having red hair, but people seem to like that aesthetic.
Rachel Hurd-Wood
RedPeopleHairSickAestheticSeem
To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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I'm attracted to the rag & bone aesthetic - classic and effortless with an edge.
Haley Bennett
AestheticEdgeClassicBoneRag
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
E. O. Wilson
NatureSpiritualKeyAestheticEven
Not one person would admit that they didn't want me to wear a bikini because of their aesthetic preference - a preference that is shaped by our cultural perceptions of what is and isn't beautiful.
Jennifer Armintrout
BeautifulMeAestheticAdmitPerson
All of Vegas is false. There's a false Paris, a false Venice, a false Baghdad - in fact, all of the early Vegas aesthetic is Baghdad, which is also the irony. It's 'Aladdin,' the sands, 'One Thousand and One Nights.'
Robert Lepage
AestheticVegasEarlyParisIrony
For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.
Steve Jobs
QualitySleepNightAestheticYou
My aesthetic is I love anything in the late 1800s, early 1900s.
Troy Nixey
LoveAestheticEarlyLateAnything
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