100 aesthetic quotes that unravel the beauty of life (2023)

Appreciate the beauty of everything around you by reading these aesthetic quotes.

As we get older, we sometimes forget the value of beauty and the effect it has on us. We tend to only focus on the practicality and usefulness of things that make things convenient for us. So we forget the crucial role that aesthetics plays in our lives.

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So if you want to be reminded why we need beauty in our everyday lives, this collection is perfect for you.

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Best Aesthetic Quotes

1. "Aesthetic issues are fundamental to the harmonious development of society and the individual." - Friedrich Schiller

2. “The aesthetic isn't just a side note. They are just as important as anything else.” – Sylvain Neuvel

3. “Aesthetic freedom is like freedom of speech. It is indeed a form of free speech.” – George Edward Woodberry

4. “Aesthetics rather than reason shapes our thought processes. Aesthetics comes first, then logic.” – Daniel Tammet

5. "Art is the imposition of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic pleasure is the recognition of the pattern." - Alfred North Whitehead

6. "All I can say about the work I'm trying to do is that the aesthetic is actually itself." - Helen Levitt

7. "We find beauty not in the thing itself, but in the shadow patterns, the light and the dark that one thing creates against another." - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

8. "Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meaning symbolically." - Daniel Glocke

9. "Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgment endure." - Roger Scruton

10. “Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a set of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.” – Jiménez Lai

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11. "The aesthetic experience must be there, and beauty is a regular experience of every person, every person who is not clinically depressed!" - Peter Schjeldahl

12. “Aesthetics have significant political ramifications. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful, or desirable or not, has profound consequences in terms of one's self-esteem and one's ability to be a political actor.” – Cornel West

13. "Aesthetics can take revenge on ideology by revealing a power to complicate that is also a power to undermine." - Murray Krieger

14. "When an idea, a person or a small thought makes us happy, we can say that it is divine and aesthetic." - Anonymous

15. “Beauty is a combination of qualities. I don't think there's any denying that certain people or things feel aesthetically pleasing. But without an equally pleasing being behind that form, there is no beauty there.” – Teri Hatcher

Inspirational aesthetic quotes

16. "Aesthetics makes life beautiful and wonderful, fills it with new forms and gives it progress, variety and change." - Frank Harris

17. “Every great work of art enlivens and readjusts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you a denizen of this world. How inviting it is to you and lets you breathe its strange, special air.” – Leonhard Bernstein

Short aesthetic quotes

23. "Aesthetics is the garbage of intuitive feeling." - Kazimir Malevich

24. "Aesthetics is to the artist what ornithology is to birds." - Barnett Newmann

25. “Aesthetics is the mother of ethics.” – Josef Brodsky

26. "Aesthetics and ethics concern the relationship between art and morality." - Anonymous

27. "A rich Harvard poet has no meaning in his head except the aesthetic." - Beatrice Holz

28. "It's hard to combine a simple life with a love of aesthetics." - Martin Rubin

29. "The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs." - Robert Schumann

30. "I've always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashionable, but an idea of beauty.” – Miuccia Prada

31. "Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness." - Brian Sewell

32. “Ethics and aesthetics are one.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein

33. “Aesthetics is the study of ideal form or beauty. It is the philosophy of art.” – Will Durant

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34. "I believe that aesthetics is one of the most powerful things there is." — Kalle Lasn

35. "All great art is the work of the whole living being, body and soul, and chiefly the soul." - John Ruskin

Motivational aesthetic quotes to appreciate the beauty in diversity

36. "Beauty is the main positive form of aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which the aesthetic ideal finds its direct expression." - Karl Marx

37. "I don't have to be so conceited that I feel like I'm flawless. I can feel beautiful and imperfect at the same time. I have a healthy relationship with my aesthetic insecurities.” – Lupita Nyong'o

38. “The more people explore the world, the more they realize that every country has a different aesthetic.” — Helena Christensen

Aesthetic quotes for all nature lovers

39. "Nature is the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction." - E.O. Wilson

40. "Appreciate the aesthetics and creativity of nature and be thankful to be a part of it." - M.F. Moonzajer

41. "To respond in nature and art in such a way that the meaning of life enjoyed can become a part of life is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation." - George Herbert Met

42. "It's odd that there's a high regard for nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and beauty.” –jerry garcia

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Deep aesthetic quotes that will make you reevaluate beauty

43. "All aesthetic judgment is really cultural judgment." - Susan Sonntag

44. "The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not increased significantly or generally by possession." - Thorstein Veblen

45. “Nothing is beautiful, only man. All aesthetics rest on this piece of naivety. It is the first truth of aesthetics. Let's add the second thing right away, nothing is ugly, but degenerate human being - this determines the area of aesthetic judgement." -Friedrich Nietzsche

46. "Aesthetic value arises from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in disputes within a society. Aesthetic value arises from memory, and with it, as Nietzsche saw, from pain, the pain of giving up easier pleasures for much more difficult ones. Successful literary works are fears achieved, not releases from fears.” – Harald Bloom

47. "Aesthetic considerations are a matter of luxury and indulgence rather than necessity." - Anonymous

48. "Aesthetic decay leaves traces and stories on the surface of the object." - Kristine H. Harper

49. "Beauty exists only in the mind that looks at things, and every mind perceives a different beauty, and each individual should indulge his own feeling without pretending to regulate that of others." - David Hume

50. “Beauty, which is perhaps inextricably linked to art, is not linked to the subject but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other way does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.” – Paul Klee

51. "There's something about fear and aesthetics that goes hand in hand." - Christoph Bollen

52. "In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is more authentic and commendable than a political or religious one." - Tom Robbin

53. "To be civilized is to be a potential master of all sorts of ideas, and that means getting past the shock while retaining your own moral-aesthetic predilections." —Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

54. "I hate this aesthetic game of the eye and the mind played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who 'appreciate' beauty. What is beauty anyway? That does not exist. I never 'appreciate' more than I 'like'. I 'love' or 'hate'.” –Pablo Picasso

55. “There are moods in which one feels the urge to enter into a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinful world. One half turns away from certain beautiful, useless things in thought.” – Henry Jakob

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56. “But aesthetics is not a religion, and the origins of religion lie elsewhere. You're lying anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep murmur of the breaking waves is too glorious to do justice to such weighty things now.” – Rudolf Otto

Positive aesthetic quotes to show their importance in art

57. “Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly. It is very important for the mind and therefore for health.” – Robert Batemann

58. “Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.” – Octavio Paz

59. "In simple terms, 'beauty' is that which pleases the heart, neither a symmetrical face nor a shapely body. If what you see makes you happy, you are beautiful.” – Adel Ahmed Khan

60. “It's just as important to take time to develop our aesthetic skills as it is to cultivate our fundraising instinct. One cannot live on bread alone. His higher life demands an intangible sustenance.” — Orison Swett Marden

61. “If the universal is essential, then it is the basis of all life and all art. Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest sense of beauty.” – Piet Mondrian

62. "The fact that the colors in the flower evolved to attract insects for pollination is interesting. This means that insects can see the colors. That adds a question, does this aesthetic sense that we have exist in lower life forms as well?” – Richard Feynmann

63. “I've always loved fashion and clothes. Not because I think this is a place for women, but because aesthetics are important to me. I like art. I like going to art museums and to me these things are just manifestations of my own aesthetic sense.” – Leila Janah

64. "The forms of art are inexhaustible, but all lead along the same path of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy." - Clive Bell

65. "Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the internet, I think you need to invest in the aesthetic." - David Eggers

Insightful aesthetic quotes for artists

66. "Aesthetic criticism takes us back to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the lonely soul, the reader not as a person in society but as a deep self, our ultimate interiority." - Harald Bloom

67. "When a work of art is rich and vibrant and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those who appeal more to ethics than aesthetics will see its moral lesson."—Oscar Wilde

68. “The aesthetics of architecture must be rooted in a broader notion of human activities such as walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture is thinking about how to add value to these activities.” – Thomas Mayne

69. “There is an aesthetic excitement in painting that is one of the most beautiful experiences one can have. Put things down while you feel that joy.” – Charles Webster Hawthorne

70. "It is by its very incompleteness that art becomes perfect in beauty, and so is addressed neither to the cognitive faculty nor to the reasoning faculty, but only to the aesthetic sense." - Frank Harris

71. "The society of the aesthetic brought with it the need to defend the literary as a form of discourse whose functioning convinces us to distinguish it from other forms." - Michael L. Clark

72. “In the past, an artist produced things that were socially necessary. They were instruments, albeit of a special kind, that helped the dead reach eternity, cast spells, liturgically realize prayers. The aesthetic component of these instruments reinforced their function, but was never central, never an independent non-utility thing.” – Stanislaus Lem

73. “The machine aesthetic brought to modern architecture something familiar to modern experience but distant from architecture.” – Robin Evans

74. "Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed again." - Ben Shneiderman

75. "When you add something to a painting, never allow it for aesthetic reasons. Just drop it for the sake of expression.” – Asger Jörn

76. "My particular aesthetic of light, color and design would not change if I worked with computer graphics rather than slit scans or miniatures." - Douglas Trumbull

77. "Painting is the aesthetic side of the object, but it was never original, never was its own goal." - Kazimir Malevich

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78. “What is going on in abstract art is the proclamation of aesthetic principles. We have only become aware of purely aesthetic considerations in our time. Art can never be imitation.” –Hans Hofmann

Aesthetic quotes that will open your mind

79. "What is particularly striking and noteworthy is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be correct than a theory that is inelegant." - Murray Gell-Mann

80. “After a certain high level of technical proficiency is achieved, science and art tend to merge in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are also artists.” –Albert Einstein

81. "If we look at the philosophical aspect, we can say that 'aesthetic' has to do with concepts like beautiful and ugly." - Anonymous

82. “I handled color the way a man should. You can conclude that I regard ethics and aesthetics as one.” – Josef Albers

83. “I think death is the aesthetic part of chess when I see your opponent's army falling. Making a sacrifice to mate is the aesthetic part of it. It's a beautiful, bloodless war.” – Daniel Naroditsky

84. "Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our time." - Richard Rogers

85. “Design is a way of life, a way of looking at things. It encompasses the entire complex of visual communication: talent, design ability, craftsmanship and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economy, technology and psychology are inseparable from the process.” – Paul Rand

86. “Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.” - Richard Dawkins

87. “God's good pleasure – the beauty that creation possesses in His regard underlies the distinct nature of creation, and so beauty is the first and truest word in relation to all that appears within being. Beauty is showing what is. God looked at what he had made and saw that it was good.” —David BentleyHart

88. "I could not help admiring the surroundings: these mixed touches betrayed in miniature a poet's inspiration, a scientist's research, an artist's good taste, the gourmet's fondness for good food, and the love of flowers that grow in concealed in their delicate shadows a touch of woman's love.” – August Strindberg

89. “But those who seek only the validation of life will never be more than tourists—seeing all and trying to own what can only be felt. Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.” – Simon van Booy

90. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." - Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

More aesthetic quotes to make you think

91. "Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract thinking, guide and shape the process by which we all know what we know." - Daniel Tammet

92. “The need to have reality confirmed by photographs and to have the experience enhanced is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone has now succumbed. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image junkies. It is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.” – Susan Sonntag

93. "The aesthetic sense is the twin of self-preservation and more reliable than ethics." - Dana Amir

94. "I wanted to come to this aesthetic proposition that comes from learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you apart from the academic way they fit in." - Stanley Crouch

95. “Aesthetic emotions put man in a state favorable for receiving erotic emotions. Art is the accomplice of love. Take away love and there is no more art.” – Rémy de Gourmont

96. "I think it's more correct to think of aesthetics as a key ingredient in a recipe, as opposed to the icing on the cake." - Stephen P. Anderson

97. "We all valued a certain aesthetic, and with that appreciation came a certain stylized presence." - Bernstein heard

98. "If you take it into the urban realm, it will be used or abused, but it's also likely to provide a way for people to appreciate what the aesthetic is about, because people have to deal with it every day." - Richard Serra

99. "Aesthetic detachment will not stop the suffering of craving, nor will the torments of the boudoir heal the craving of suffering." - David Hosford

100. “The extraordinary thing about contemporary art is the energy. It has our energy. New energy. Pieces that are hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.” – Viktor Pinchuk

Did these quotes make you appreciate aesthetics?

Seeing the beauty around us makes us happy, content, and hopeful. And admiring even the smallest things shows why we should be thankful for existing in this life. Unfortunately, not everyone pays attention to the things that matter most.

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We are so busy with work or school that we become so focused on just one task. But if we're just paying attention, even the twinkling stars in the sky or the green grass and colorful flowers in the park can help us face life more calmly and optimistically. In other words, aesthetics is what makes us good and happy.

Indeed, beauty inspires us to live fully and make every day count. Our appreciation for everything around us drives us to keep going. So next time you're feeling tired and unmotivated, stop and contemplate the beauty in the world!

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