Edith Schaeffer Quotes

I like to aestheticize every possible thing that can be aestheticized.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

A painting has to be beautiful. Even in its grotesqueness.

I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't like it, you can paint over it!

I'm surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to call it beautiful, although I'm not clear about that. The work is good when it has a certain completeness; and when it's got a certain completeness, then it's beautiful.

Art is - representing the beautiful. There must be Art in everything.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes.

I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

Architects think that beauty is a crime.

I enjoy finding a low subject and bringing it up high. I think with strong technique, you can glamorize certain things. You can make the imagery sharper, rounder, and basically better looking.

Beauty really has such a wide field of interpretation. I guess that's why it's forever fascinating.

When I see a beautiful piece of art, it inspires me to be creative.

I believe that one of the most powerful things of all is aesthetics.

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.

A beautiful dress can be as exciting as a poem.

I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

To tell you the truth, I am rather perplexed by the concept of 'art'. What one person considers to be 'art' is often not 'art' to another. 'Beautiful' and 'ugly' are old-fashioned concepts that are seldom applied these days; perhaps justifiably, who knows? Something repulsive, which gives you a moral hangover, and hurts your ears or eyes, may well be art. Only 'kitsch' is not art - we're all agreed about that. Indeed, but what is 'kitsch'? If only I knew!