Quotes Tagged With :aesthetics

When a work of painting, music or other form attains two-way communication, it is truly art. One occasionally....

How convenient it is to declare that everything is totally ugly within the habit of the époque, rather....

[Hegel’s] system of nature seemed, at least to natural philosophers, absolutely crazy….Hegel…launched....

[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology....

In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.

In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.

We want people to represent us in politics—and in love and economics too. When people represent us....

Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary....

Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.

Rules of taste enforce structures of power.