Aesthetics Quotes

What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.

Murray Gell-Mann

It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.

Charlaine Harris

And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the world, yes, and laws, and inevitability, but they had only to do with the aesthetic and in this Savage Garden, these innocent ones belonged in the vampire's arms. A thousand other things can be said about the world, but only aesthetic principles can be verified, and these things alone remain the same.

Anne Rice

Any great art work revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

Leonard Bernstein

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

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

Clarice Lispector

Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.

Roger Scruton

An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.

Kazuo Ishiguro