aesthetics Quotes

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one,... ...

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

Art aims to show the inner meaning of things, not just how they look on the outside.

Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.

The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.

The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.

"It's useful because it's beautiful."

"C'est véritablement utile puisque c'est joli. It is truly useful since it is beautiful."