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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!
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#1
“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.” ― Sophia Loren
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#2
“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.” ― Alfred North Whitehead
#3
“A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty” ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#10
“The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.” ― Theodor W. Adorno
#11
“What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.” ― Susan Sontag
#12
“Camp taste is a kind of love, love for human nature. It relishes, rather than judges, the little triumphs and awkward intensities of ‘character.’” ― Susan Sontag
#14
“Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
#15
“I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.” ― Kamand Kojouri
#16
“We are living in a moment where we have broken the equilibrium of the planet. We are not paying attention to our intuitive side. We only pay attention to our reason. We have become an urban animal.” ― Sebastião Salgado
#17
“Your skin has a memory. In ten, twenty, thirty years from now, your skin will show the results of how it was treated today. So treat it kindly and with respect.” ― Jana Elston
#19
“Beauty exists merely in the mind which contemplates things; and each mind perceives a different beauty; and every individual ought to acquiesce in his own sentiment, without pretending to regulate those of others.” ― David Hume
#20
"Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored." – Earl Nightigale
#23
“Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful.” ― Hiromu Arakawa
#24
“In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.” ― Baruch de Spinoza
#26
“Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences in terms of one’s feelings of self-worth and one’s capacity to be a political agent.” ― Cornel West
#27
“Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.” ― Roger Scruton
#28
“In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one.” ― Tom Robbins
#29
“I think that's what art is: art is communication made in the hope that interesting miscommunications will arise.” ― Misha Glouberman
#30
“Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.” ― Theodor W. Adorno
#31
“The aesthetic can have its revenge upon ideology by revealing a power to complicate that is also a power to undermine.” ― Murray Krieger
#33
“Around the world, men and women who are blessed with beauty are like tower clocks: though they are few, they hardly escape people’s notice.” ― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
#34
“Had you asked me then, I would have told you it was aesthetic, that I wished to understand death in stages. That the death of an animal yielded such pleasure and experience to me that I had only begun to understand it, and wished to save the experience of human death for my mature understanding. But it was moral. Because all aesthetic decisions are moral, really.” ― Anne Rice
#36
“The beauty of the subject often deceives us into thinking that someone is a great photographer.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#37
“Autumn is a poem - while you fall for everything, you remember that there is something worth dying for.” ― Laura Chouette
#39
“But neither art nor aesthetics is alone in being doomed to this melancholy destiny of living not beyond their means, but beyond their ends.” ― Jean Baudrillard
#40
“Aesthetic detachment will not stop the suffering of desire nor will the agonies of the boudoir cure the desire of suffering.” ― David Hosford
#41
“The machine aesthetic bought something familiar to modern experience, but remote from architecture, to bear on modern architecture.” ― Robin Evans
#42
“The philosophical attitudes of awe and wonder of the Ancient Greeks and the Enlightenment Philosophy of Kant have been inverted into the "modern" moods of terror and boredom.” ― Michael R.D. James
#43
“If I was asked to get rid of the Zen aesthetic and just keep one quality necessary to create art, I would say it’s trust. When you learn to trust yourself implicitly, you no longer need to prove something through your art. You simply allow it to come out, to be as it is. This is when creating art becomes effortless. It happens just as you grow your hair. It grows.” ― John Daido Loori
#44
“The aesthetics aren’t merely a side note, they’re as important as anything else.” ― Sylvain Neuvel
#45
“Refinement creates beauty everywhere: it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but grossness in the object.” ― William Hazlitt
#46
“The starry sky began to shine, when assigned night spread with its ‘moon lamp’ for all of the wistful thoughts, lay below the tormented Earth’s nocturnal light and those splendid visions caught my pounding spirits.” ― Nithin Purple
#47
“The historical division between the beautiful and the sublime indicates that an aesthetic experience is not necessarily linked to beauty, but can also be induced by the unpleasant, unbalanced, distorted, or even hideous.” ― Kristine H. Harper
#48
“In the psychology of aesthetics, there is a name for the moment between the anxiety of confronting something new and the satisfying click of understanding it. It is called an ’aesthetic aha.” ― Derek Thompson
#49
“Aesthetic sense is the twin of one's instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics.” ― Joseph Brodsky
#50
“It’s better to have a hunger and appreciation for beauty than to be merely beautiful. In the end, life is richer that way. She may learn that.” ― Susan Vreeland
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